Liar, liar: Why Obama is failing
Obama seems to be failing more completely than any president in my lifetime. Everywhere you turn he is floundering, overreaching, or outright flunking. His only success — health care legislation — was achieved over the will of the people, rarely a good idea. He is manufacturing conservatives and libertarians at an unprecedented clip. The only mystery left for the coming November election is how bad a donnybrook this will be for the Democrats.
Why has this happened?
There are several obvious answers. Obama, too inexperienced for his office, never expected to accede to it so quickly in the first place. The public (correctly) has no stomach for multiculturalist foreign policy. Liberal economics has reached the end of its Ponzi scheme road and we’re in a recession/depression with no end in sight. And, of course, there is that little eco-catastrophe in the Gulf
But there is another reason, perhaps more important than all of them. Obama has been unable to use the Bully Pulpit. No one pays attention to him. The vaunted Demosthenes of the campaign trail disappeared literally upon inauguration. He hasn’t been able to convince anyone of anything. He only succeeds when he acts purely as a bully, muscling through legislation.
Some say this is because he wasn’t such a great orator in the first place. He just read decently off a teleprompter and with the prompter gone the emperor has not clothes.
But I think it is something more complex and deeper. There have been plenty of presidents with limited abilities off the cuff. I think it is because Obama was elected on a lie, a big one that was enabled by the mainstream media, and that by the time he was in office he had spent his credit. Belief was gone. Everyone knew he was a liar, including many liberals, even if they wouldn’t admit it to themselves and even if they had colluded with him in the lie.
I am speaking, alas again, of the Reverend Wright affair. I thought it was serious at the time. In retrospect, I think it was disastrous, probably fatal.
Barack Obama told us on several occasions then that he had not been aware of Wright’s extreme black nationalist views during the candidate’s twenty years in the reverend’s church. That made no sense, since Obama had dedicated his book to Wright, had his children baptized by him, etc. Also, Wright’s separatist brand of black liberation theology was no doubt quite familiar to Obama. It had been to many of us for decades.
Getting his health care legislation passed was a political success. However its effect on American citizens will, in my opinion, be a disaster.
And there is another possibility regarding ” Reverend ” Wright.
Perhaps his anti-semitism was appealing to a larger segment of the voting public than many are comfortable considering?
Just a thought.
No. If Israel goes down, it will because of the flaws inhering to the concept of zionism.
The U.S. hung South Africa & Rhodesia out to dry ,don’t think Israel’s going for it .
We didn’t hang anyone out to dry: we refused at some point to walk any further with them down their path of a highly segregated society. They originated in large part by fleeing British rule and its opposition to slavery. Both places simply hung on too long to the idea of racially segrated countries and paid the ultimate price. Our refusal to indulge this anymore was being true to ourselves, not hanging them out to dry. They hung themselves.
What rubbish! Zimbabwe is a true hell on Earth, and South Africa is not far behind. It was the decision of the world to toss those two countries to the wolves that caused their present misery. This is the dirtywork of Western “progressives”.
Mugabe and Mandela decided to cash in on the racist past of these two countries rather than try to overcome it. Both Mugabe and Mandela pursued policies that made the previous regimes look tame by comparison.
Your excuses remind me of the attempts to justify the increasingly genocidal tone of the Rwandan government just after independence from colonial rule. One day the leaders of Zimbabwe and South Africa will follow in the bloody footsteps of the Hutu Power wackos in Rwanda.
Mr. Daudi says: Mugabe and Mandela “decided to cash in on the racist past of these two countries rather than try to overcome it.” That’s exactly it, isn’t it? And the same is true of American progressives. They’re trying to keep racism alive as a profitable cottage industry, even at the risk of destroying the country. And the same is true of the grievance-mongering camp in feminism. You can’t ever just remove barriers and then let people compete, you’ve got to keep the deck stacked against them so they can clamor for reparations or, at least, continue to excuse failure.
Just what ” flaws ” are you talking about?
IMO, the term “Zionist” is hater code for anti-semitism. The “flaw” he’s referring to is the idea that the Jews should have a homeland. Using his same illogic, NO groups of ANY kind should have a homeland proclaimed by God, won in discovery or battle, or freely chosen by voluntary relocation. Instead, we should all be genetically tested and forced to return to the place where our matching genes first showed up.
For the Jews, that would be Israel.
Taxpayer, you have hit the nail on the head. Of course those who think Jews have no right to their own nation have a had time dealing with the facts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_official_religions
” have a HARD time ”
Thats what my wife calls a ” senior moment “.
I really do hope your remarks were sarcastic in nature. Israel is our only ally in the region, and if it falls it will be a catastrophe for us as a nation, not to speak to the horror that would be visited upon the people of Israel. If Israel falls, it will be our fault. In such a case, Israel’s only crime would be that of trusting an unworthy ally.
So Tom, just exactly what flaws are there in an ideology that says that a people should be self-determinant in their historical homeland?
Like what? Existing? “Palestinians” have more rights in Israel than they do in any other country in the Middle East, including their own wretched death cult pseudo state. If Israel fails, it will be because the same people who felt so very self righteously disgusted about South Africa and Rhodesia’s racial unfairness, but who completely ignore the chauvinism, cruelty, tyranny, injustice and even outright slavery in most other countries on that continent, are now prepared to take the same posture in the Middle East: condemn the one democracy and ignore the tyrannies on all sides.
Absolutely right. You have just hit the nail on the head. We seem to live on a planet of make believe. The majority turn a blind eye to what actually goes on in this world of ours. Could someone please tell me why.
Everybody believes what they want to believe. No exceptions.
It is what I cal the Law of the Perfect Perversity of the Left: if there is an absolutely, patently wrongheaded or false way to do or think about something, that is the way the Left will choose. One reason is the shoot-from-the-hip, stump your friends culture that comes from the college campuses of the last 45 years. Amaze your friends with your deep thinking that sees through “conventional” views. Obama is the cream example of this. The important thing is to seem like you know something everyone else doesn’t by the sheer counterintuitiveness of it. he must be REALLY smart to see something noone else does!
There are many other reasons, of course, for the Left’s posture against Israel. But adolescent contrariness is one of them.
” Could someone please tell me why. ”
I congratulate you on asking the most important question of the modern age.
If Israel “goes down”? Seriously? I mean, is this what you wish for? Because I don’t think Israel has any intention of going down.
Excuse me, but where is it written that the US was obligated to trade with countries using segregated facilities decades after even Jackson, Mississippi got rid of them?
What law made it the obligation of the US to prop up white plantationers relaxing on their estates for fear of what might replace them?
Both countries waited too long to move into the 20th century and paid the price: it wasn’t our job to prop them up. Good ridance.
As for what they are now, they are as they were taught by their old owners to be. Too bad the old owners didn’t do more to introduce the rest of the population to stable government.
The anti-Semitism is just a small part of the much bigger anti-white, anti-American pathology that informs Wright’s (and, yes, Obama’s) world-view.
Yes, you are correct. But the anti-semitism comes not from the straw man set up by the left (the “ignorant right-wing Republican”), but from the left-wing itself (the sophisticated, saavy Champagne communist). For decades we’ve been taught that right wing = something like Nazis, but as Jonah Goldberg so sagely taught us, the National Socialists were left wingers. And history is repeating itself in this regard: the American left wing (our National Socialist Workers’ Party) is showing its true colors and anti-Semitism.
The Nazis were an anticapitalist party, but hardly a movement produced by the European Left or the Second International. They were above all counter-revolutionaries with a rival statist program. I wrote about Jonah Goldberg’s errors here: http://clarespark.com/2010/03/10/jonah-goldbergs-liberal-fascism-part-one/. Also, the word “socialist” in the name of the Nazi party does not refer to what we think of as a stage on the way to communism, but to a meaning specific to Nazism and fascism in general: civil rights are not natural but a gift of the state, and the people’s community, with its race solidarity, confers mutual support while erasing the conception of the dissenting individual. It is odd that Jonah G. did not study Roosevelt’s supporters in the field of social psychology, for they had elucidated the Nazi ideology and then strove to copy it: I did a series of studies here: http://clarespark.com/2010/04/18/links-to-nazi-sykewar-american-style/. The book edited by Ladislas Farago and published by the Committee for National Morale that I presented clearly states the militaristic and racist organic conservative lineage of Nazism.
Socialism is a somewhat nebulous term. Its adherents, however, agree that “elites” should manage the economy on behalf of the unwashed masses. At the end of the day, the number one thing separating the Nazis from their Communist counterparts is the former’s explicit racism. Communists like Joseph Stalin were also racists but hypocritically denied it. Nazis like Werner Sombart and Joseph Goebbels openly acknowledged their infatuation with highly centralized economic planning.
The only difference between the Soviets and the Nazis was that the latter had better uniforms.
NAZIs called themselves “socialists” from about 1930 to about 1955 when the last of them were suppressed. They were called “socialists” globally for a while after WWII. They were called “socialists” in the US schools up to about 1970. Now all of a sudden they are not socialists?
(BTW, same time frame, Italy pre and during WWII was “Fascist”.)
Exactly right.
Is this what the Founding Fathers were warning us against, “the spirit of faction?” I, for one, find it very strange to find something defined as a “political success” when it is so plainly bad for the country.
“Perhaps his anti-semitism was appealing to a larger segment of the voting public than many are comfortable considering?”
My gut says no. Yes, there is anti-semitism in the U.S., but the greatest demographic dynamic in American politics has always been racially based slavery and its consequences, not anti-semitism. Thomas Jefferson, a life-long slave owner, reportedly said he trembled for his country when he considered that God is just. We are still paying the price.
Europe is the home of anti-semitism as a demographic and political dynamic.
I would suggest that antisemitism has gained a toehold among the American intelligentsia via its over-reliance on Continental political philosophy.
Brett, I would take it a step farther and state that BHO is importing european style anti-semitism and legitimizing it.
Are you suggesting that white America was so comfortable with Rev. Wright’s anti-Semitic language that it was willing to — en masse — overlook his VERY overt, even cartoonish, anti-white shtick? Maybe their reasoning went something like, “gee whiz, I don’t know about this Rev. Wright guy — he hates the white, cracker-ass devils, and since I’m white, that means he hates me. But he sure hates him some Jews, so the guy can’t be all bad.”
If so, Americans sure are a bunch of Jew-hating rubes. But I call B.S. on your premise.
For crying out loud TS, where that sh#t come from.
MBY just made a claim that America’s so called intellectuals, learned their anti-semitism from Europe’s so call intellectuals. He made no comments regarding whites.
The vast majority of American’s had no idea how anti-semitic the “Reverend” Wright was, because our so called elites decided to suppress such information.
I thought the anti-Semitism stemmed from a relationship with The Nation of Islam. Don’t see either of these guys, Pres. or Wright as continental.
Mark the Great,
In his original comment, Menachem Ben Yakov didn’t specify which segment of the (American) voting public, which may have found Rev. Wright’s anti-Semitism appealing, he was referring to. Nowhere did he indicate that the group of voters in question were American intellectuals who are influenced by the currents of continental European intellectual thought.
His exact question was: “Perhaps his anti-semitism was appealing to a larger segment of the voting public than many are comfortable considering? … Just a thought.”
That’s a pretty vague question. It’s impossible to know exactly what the comment’s author had in mind, but it’s hardly a stretch to infer that the question seems to be pointed at the “average” or “typical” American voter, rather than at any specifically targeted subset of the voting public (i.e., intellectuals who rip their political views off from European intellectuals).
T.S. , I don’t make the charge of anti-semitism lightly. You assumed I meant ” white ” voters. Why?
Unfortunately ant-semitism , a disease of the mind and soul, can be found in many groups, colors, nationalities.etc.
However to deny the resurgence of anti-semitism in the world today would be an error of enormous magnitude.
I have found the folks that congregate at PJM to be honest and fair minded with very few exceptions.
I am sorry you personally took offense because I meant none.
T.S.
Let me see if I have this right. Since you found his statement to be vague. You assumed he was talking about you.
Maybe you should have asked for clarification before you launched into your rather ignorant tirade.
Menachem Ben Yakov,
Your original comment (“Perhaps his anti-semitism was appealing to a larger segment of the voting public than many are comfortable considering? … Just a thought”) posited that anti-Semitism may be more widespread among the American voting public than many people realize. The comment didn’t specify which American voters may have found Rev. Wright’s anti-Semitism appealing, but it suggested that perhaps a fairly large segment of voters did. Thus, based on the wording of the comment, it would be logical for the reader to conclude that your intent was to posit that American anti-Semitism may be uncomfortably more mainstream than one would expect.
As for your query regarding why I “assumed” you meant white voters: actually, I didn’t necessarily assume that’s what you meant. Technically, I was asking for further clarification as to who you thought the voters were who may have been comfortable with Rev. Wright’s anti-Semitism. Why did I reference white voters? The answer is twofold: 1.) because when the generic term “American public” is used, it’s often used to describe mainstream, middle-America — which is almost always understood to mean middle-class whites (i.e., the mythical “Joe Q. Public” — “Joe Q. Public” or “Joe Schmoe” is usually envisioned to be a schlubby middle-class white guy), 2.) because Anti-Semitism in America — as it’s commonly portrayed in the popular culture, by the media, and in the halls of Academia (not to mention in brownstones on the Upper West Side of Manhattan) — is usually placed at the feet of Southern and Midwestern middle-class rural and suburban white, Christian political conservatives (i.e., “rednecks”). And while that may be a deeply flawed stereotype, it is, nevertheless, fairly pervasive in polite circles.
As for my use of the term “white America,” that’s a widespread term among adherents of critical race theory and Whiteness studies (the academic study of “White privilege”). Now prevalent in American higher education, Critical race theory/Whiteness studies is essentially an updated, race-based tweak on Marx’s theory of class conflict. It alleges that European-descended whites (particularly white males) are genetically wired to be racist oppressors. As such, Western culture — and America in particular — is the vehicle by which the white male patriarchy oppresses all the world’s non-whites (per “Whiteness studies,” Jews can sometimes be considered to be a sub-category of the “white oppressors,” or at other times, be included among the “oppressed”). Thus, Critical race theory pits Christian and capitalist “white America” — the hegemonic oppressor — against all people of color (and frequently people of color and non-Christians), and vice-versa.
In modern parlance, the term “white America” is synonymous with “racist, sexist, bigot homophobe.” Increasingly, it’s become understood to include “Islamophobic,” and it’s also frequently understood to include “anti-Semitic” (even though Jews can sometimes also be classified as “white oppressors”). Drop the term “white America” in casual conversation on a college campus or at an editorial board meeting at the New York Times, and nearly everybody will understand what you mean. Hell, Eminem even did a song titled “White America.” Basically, “white America” means small-minded, evil, racist oppressor. In its pure form, it’s meant to apply to all whites, but liberal whites believe (hope) that their “progressive” politics more or less absolve them from the sin of whiteness. Thus, white urban liberals generally use the term “white America” to refer to conservative suburban and rural whites.
(BTW, a bit off topic, but the founder of Critical race theory is former Harvard Law professor Derrick Bell, who was a mentor of Barack Obama’s at Harvard Law. Based on a review of his Spring 1994 course syllabus, Obama apparently drew heavily on Bell’s writings in the seminar he taught on American Racism at the University of Chicago. If you pay close attention, you’ll observe that Obama often draws on tenets of Critical race theory when he speaks extemporaneously.)
So what am I trying to say? First, to be clear, I took no offense at your comment. It can sometimes be hard to decipher a writer’s intent from a few sentences in blog comment. I’m definitely not offended by anything you wrote or inferred (and even if I were, so what!?! — free speech is becoming endangered because anybody can take offense at just about anything … and can demand some form of redress for having been “offended”). But since your comment was vague, I was trying to determine what segment of the voting public you were talking about. Second, I didn’t necessarily assume that you were positing that white voters were anti-Semites. But having grown up in the age of Political Correctness, and having been stepped in variants of Critical theory in school (including Critical race theory, Whiteness studies, Gender studies, Queer theory, etc.), it was logical to inquire as to whether your comment was informed by the current academic/media/pop culture trope of oppressive white Western culture vs. the oppressed (i.e., everybody else — sometimes including Jews).
For the record, I don’t think true anti-Semitism is particularly widespread, nor is it a mainstream value, in America. It exists in pockets, but in general, anti-Semitism is considered to be so unacceptable that it’s rarely expressed in public (outside of certain American sub-cultures and sub-groups).
TS, I appreciate your reply and the time you took to explain yourself. Take a look at this-
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=153417
Yes, sir. But, consider the source of that anti semitism. I think you will find it eminates from the very people that Rev. Wright seeks to represent. The President is proving that on a daily basis.
Obama’s flip with regard to Israel was the most blatant proof of his lack of direction. He has revealed that he has no actual principles but just stumbles from one crisis to the next all the while acting superbly.
The old claim that bullshit baffles brains unfortunately holds supreme.
Maybe. But it doesn’t feel that way to me. It feels to me like he came into office with an anti-Israel head of steam. It doesn’t take a great leap of imagination to figure where he got it: the Black Nationalist movement and the anti-semitic, anti-democratic tropes of the Marxist Left in which his life has been steeped. His knee jerked in this issue, just like it jerks on every other issue he encounters. He only knows the cliches and slogans of his narrow circle of intellectual mentors. He is a programmed entity, and his responses show it.
Without overthinking this, Roger, I think you accurately assessed the current zeitgeist–the public has shut him off. Crank up taxes? Expected that. Sue Arizona–ugh, but expected that. “Spread it around” on health care–people are pissed off, but expected it. Spend unbelievable amounts of money on the usual special interests, expected that. I no longer need the details of his socialism. Just get us to November.
I’d agree that the core of Obama’s failure is trust betrayed. However, I wouldn’t limit it to the Rev. Wright Affair but all the other lies that have followed, big and small.
I think Obama could have recovered a fair amount of ground if he just told some truth, even as recently as this oil spill, but when reality collides with ideology he seems constitutionally unable to tell the truth.
I can’t even tell if Obama can tell the difference between the truth and his lies.
“he seems constitutionally unable to tell the truth”
Why? Because he is a psychopath! No one seems willing to consider an explanation that looks at Obama’s underlying personality disorder. Too bad, because personality disorders tend to remain quite stable in adulthood. This is what we got. A personality disorder inhabiting the highest position this country can offer.
By the way, it is no shame that the population and the MSM believed him. It is the stock and trade of psychopaths to say what people want to hear. But now that we know, it would indeed be our fault to ignore the information.
He is a liar because he is a psychopath! All his contradictory behaviors fall into place once this understanding it applied.
Jerry:
What a great morning this is. First Roger takes off his dark glasses and speaks truth to power and then you follow. Simply beautiful.
“It is the stock and trade of psychopaths to say what people want to hear. But now that we know, it would indeed be our fault to ignore the information.
My hope now is that folks such as you and Roger will come all the way around and face another stark reality; Barack Hussein Obama is a dedicated Marxist, and that’s the bottom line. Redistribution of wealth was and is his goal and nobody could do it better or faster.
Those who worked hard, played by the rules and saved for a lifetime are being robbed on a daily basis by the most evil and unfair tax of all, inflation. The stolen property is then bestowed upon the “little people” in Robin Hood fashion by our benevolent “dictator”.
Of couse as always, I could be wrong. But I doubt that I am.
Regards to Roger and Jerry. Keep on keeping on. The country needs you. But even more, it needs Victor Davis Hanson to run for the presidency in 2012. Wouldn’t you love to see a debate between the common sense historian, Dr. Hanson and the liar, marxist psycopath?
He is a liar because he is a psychopath!”
No, I don’t think he is a psychopath. He is a narcissist.
That doesn’t make him any less of a liar, though. His whole public persona is a lie. Sure, everyone tries to project the image of ourselves we want people to accept and respond to, but with this man it’s pathological, and he has had plenty of enablers his entire life. That’s why I’d like to see his original birth certificate – not that I believe he was born outside the US (I don’t) but because I think there’s some detail there, perfectly innocuous to you and me, but which conflicts with his carefully crafted life story.
However, until the next Presidential election, the best way to deal with Obama is ridicule – as thin skinned as he is, that’s the worst thing he could face. It also causes his mask to slip and the real man to snarl forth – and it ain’t pretty.
The differential (diagnosis) between narcissistic personality disorder and psychopathy is hard to make. However, let me try to make the case:
1) When Hilary Clinton lost the Nevada primary to Obama, it was because the Clinton delegates were physically restrained from entering the room where the vote took place. On being confronted with the train of events by a reporter, Mr. Obama said, “It was a difficult campaign!” He said this with a straight face and without flinching in any way. A major difference between ‘normals’ and ‘psychopaths’ is that psychopaths do not react to emotionally-laden words differently than to neutral words.
2) Psychopaths lack empathy. Mr. Obama needs constant coaching in how to show empathy and fails much of the time in spite of the training.
3) Psychopaths have no difficulty saying things that contradict one another. More important, psychopaths have do not feel the need to justify conflicting statements. Mr. Obama has often made contradictory statements without trying to iron out the inconsistencies.
See Hervey Cleckley’s “The Mask of Sanity” and Robert Hare’s “Without conscence”
This nails it. Obama is a liar – and it wasn’t only Reverend Wright. It was his most of his campaign. Do you remember his declamation of “That is not true!” in one of the debates with McCain? McCain’s called out his unusully high level of campaign donations from Fannie Mae (I think). McCain’s charge was factually correct. No one called Obama out on his brazen lie. Obama was an Obi-wan Kenobi, where he could say anything and we would agree, up until he got to the White House. Now the majoroty of the voting public see him as emperor without clothes, not a Jedi.
We need to pay attention to what is going down in our own country and act on that instead of getting our feathers ruffled about anything else right now.
We, America, are our number one concern for the moment. We need help. Obama is merely an empty suit with handlers that are trying to destroy us…Nikita Khrushchev was right
The FOX network is the only network that is “allowing’ us to hear about killing those “cracker babies”…we might get upset and do something irrational, like protest, or heaven forbid..vote in the next election for a viable candidate! Watch Beck, tivo whatever..interesting and scary stuff going on.
. The other networks are more interested in Mel Gibson and his girlfriend..and he called her the “n” word..eewww..I don’t care what they call each other!!, I care that we have people in office that are racists!!..
We voted for a done nothing, been no where, know nothing, inexperienced man because of the color of his skin!!! THE COLOR OF HIS SKIN!!!….sew, reap…drown.
Back in 2008 I thought then and I still do think that given some major
disasterous event the state run media will turn on Obama like the
diseased rats that they are. They still have some basic survival instinct.
Don’t you think the Gulf Oil Spill and Obama turning away the ships that could keep the oil away from shore — qualifies?
Where’s the outrage???
Where’s the outrage, indeed. Last Friday I heard Mark Shields (on PBS News Hour) state that the problem with Obama’s approach on the oil spill, at least as far as public perception is concerned, was that it’s too “cool and cerebral”! He could have included another “C” word: criminal, as in criminal dereliction of duty in refusing the aid that would have made all the difference. Cloward-Piven? I hate being tempted by conspiracy theory, but . . . .
“Cool and cerebral?” In other words, since he’s not *doing* anything about the spill he must be *thinking* about it. Being wise. Bathing himself in all the subtle nuances. Carefully formulating plans within plans within plans. And any moment, he’ll spring into action!
That’s great, I feel better already.
Obama should be used in the same context as Judas. Both denounced the man whom their faith was based on when their own self interest was at stake. I agree with Simon on this. To renounce the man who married you, baptised your children and had Bill Ayers dedicate his ghost written book to takes a heartless no soul liar.
He’s not interested in a peaceful abundant America. He’s too busy fighting one of our own states trying to defend it’s citizens, trying to bring civil rights charges in Oakland, golf instead of Gulf…etc.
He’s more concerned with having NASA include muslims and making them feel good, about their contributions..to..I guess to killing people because they disagree with you, I’m not sure.
We need a James Carville on the “our” side…conservatives, independents.
Obama is failing because Americans are not as stupid as he thinks they are…passive to a point, stupid …not.
I see you don’t fact check much.
The only “survival” for the MSM is gov’t subsidy, so I don’t see the turning happening.
There was such a massive flood of insanity after Obama’s Rev. Wright speech. Surely that episode will be taken up in film/fiction at some point in the future — if there is a future — but it went so far that it may very well not be believed.
Some of my liberal friends at the time, although they didn’t believe him at the time, just gave the whole episode a shrug and a big “So what!”
Yes, now they have buyer’s remorse.
The same can be said about the absurdity of anyone believing for a minute that, with his clearly Far-Left Record and almost all Radical Associations for a background, he’d govern from the Center — or at least Center Left.
We always see politicians hem, haw, hedge, squiggle, blame, fudge, and sometimes outright lie, but never have we seen — especially a President — lie — as does Obama. We know it’s Alinsky training which gives him that guilt-free aura as he tells his tales — but the way it rolls off him — it certainly looks pathological to me.
He could have just stabbed you in the belly, still be holding on to the knife and twisting, as he declares — “What Knife?” “That’s just ‘Partisan’ wheeling to prevent me from ‘progressing.” “You never have anything to offer!” “That pain is caused by 8 years of George Bush! — Me? I’m trying to put a bandage on you, and you accuse me!”
It’s a very sick thing.
And you are so correct — everyone knows it now.
Correction: “Me? I’m trying to put a bandage on you, and you accuse me! YOU OUGHT TO BE THANKING ME!”
If telling the truth would save his life,Obama would lie.
He can’t help himself after a lifetime of telling lies about himself.
You’re right on– his entire view of himself and his life is fabrication. That has been ennabled and encouraged by the leftist focus on “narrative”. Obama has a great narrative, so why bother with the truth?
Feeding into this idea, at least for me, is the birther controversy. I can easily believe that he was born in Hawaii. It seems silly that it would be an issue by simply producing a birth certificate; it seems so simple to lay all the craziness to rest. One question I’ve always had is this: is the Hawaiian Certificate of Live Birth enough to get an ordinary citizen a passport? If so, then, it would seem to be a non-issue. But if it isn’t, then I don’t think it is too much to ask for documentation that would be the basis of U.S. passport issuance.
Does anyone out there know if the Certificate of Live Birth can be a basis for issuing a passport?
You should not ‘easily believe’ this. A guy who worked at a high level in the Hawaiian bureaucracy swears that the COLB is a fraud; he saw it. There is also video evidence – ignored – on the Web of a legitimate Kenyan certificate.
Beyond that, he pretty clearly ‘gained’ Indonesian citizenship. This should disqualify him, together with the doubts on the COLB, the Kenya evidence, his father’s citizenship, his travel on an Indonesian passport, and the very rational claims that both in high school and in college in the US (Hawaii and California) he was registered as or gained scholarship money (collage) based on his being in a ‘foreign students’ category.
The evidence is quite strong. Those who attack the ‘Birthers’ – and many on this site do – are simply ignoring it.
A juvenile can’t surrender his citizenship, and a parent can’t do it for him. That’s basic law.
A person can only give up his citizenship himself, and he can’t do it until he is officially an adult.
The rest of your beliefs rest on theories as equally flawed.
Your responses are invariably either direct personal attacks or attempts to devalue the content of another poster’s posts ‘by extension.’
To say that my statements are all ‘equally flawed’ is nothing but your opinion. Since 80% or so of your posts are extremely emotional, and since you are invested in the idea – as far as I can tell – that ‘America’ would never allow such a thing (as an illegitimate Pres), I find most of what you write to be ‘flawed.’
There are only so many times I’m willing to disprove a disproven idea. Once you exceed that limit, then ridicule is the acceptable response.
The fact that you prefer to chase fantasies instead of dealing with the world as it is, is sad.
The fact that you try to psychoanalyze me rather than deal with your own psycosis is predictable.
EVen if you could prove, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that Obama wasn’t born in Hawaii, so freaking what. His mother is still a citizen, so he is. Deal with it.
Mark as I wrote on one of your other of your multitude of arrogant supercilious posts on here. Obama attended a State School in Indonesia and when he did so the INDONESIAN LAW was that legitimate CITIZENS ONLY could do so. He was also registered both there and in the MULTI FAITH Francis Assisi school he also attended as a MUSLIM and took KORANIC STUDIES (confirmed in his OWN words in his OWN book Dreams) and attended the Mosque every Friday as his contemporaries clearly remember. This is no doubt why there is such a huge number of HIDDEN DOCUMENTS including his VAULT Birth Certificate something is in there that is a killer for his INVENTED life history. Perhaps you should try and see the Indonesian film that has just been released showing Obambi’s MUSLIM life and upbringing while attending school and living in Jakarta.
Of course these might be very inconvenient FACTS for someone of your exalted intelligence (in your own mind anyway) to absorb but they are FACTS nontheless.
For Larry -
Just fresh on Yahoo news:
“Republican senator says he backs birther lawsuits -
WASHINGTON – Republican Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana says he supports conservative organizations challenging President Barack Obama’s citizenship in court. [...]
So, no matter how the Obamatons try to muffled this story, it reappears elsewhere, and in a stronger shape than before -
As far as I know, those in Congress or Senate challenged for a Y/N simply dodged the issue -
Yet now we have a full fledged Senator going for it – I want so see tomorrow Gibbs spin on this -
Here’s the link -
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100713/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_republican_senator_birthers
Yes, the COLB can and has been many times, used to issue a passport.
Mark what you and the rest of the fools like you are ignoring is that Indonesian LAW at the time Barry SOETERO was there LEGISLATED that ALL school children attending Indonesian STATE schools as Obambi DID had to be Indonesian CITIZENS no exceptions no free passes no get out clause. so you need to provide PROOF that he WASN’t as the AFFIRMATIVE is already PROVEN
Indoneasian Law is not relevant. The controling authority here is US law.
Under US law, parents cannot forfeit a child’s citizenship. Only the child can do that, and only once the child reaches the age of majority. So even if you could produce a piece of paper on which Obama’s mother signed away his citizenship, it would still be meaningless for the reason I have already stated.
If the Indoneasean courts accepted a meaningless piece of paper, that’s their problem, not ours.
Indoneasan courts have no authority over US courts.
Its true that a parent can’t decide to revoke his child’s American citizenship. I don’t have the information to know (it doesn’t seem to be publicly available) but if he did go to college claiming to be a foreign national it seems like a good case could be made that he had indeed repudiated his American citizenship by that act.
Or should we attribute it merely to fraud? And once again, I don’t have the data. True proof seems to be unavailable. Why?
It’s possible that he was taught by his parents that he was a citizen of Indonesia, but later found out that this was untrue.
It’s possible that it was fraud.
It’s also possible that Obama personally went to an embassy and revoked his citizenship. But until someone can find the piece of paper that Obama signed stating this, the third option remains the least likely of the three.
“In retrospect, I think it was disastrous, probably fatal.”
I remain convinced that the politically correct John McCain saved the Barack Obama campaign. He adamantly refused to rebuke the Democratic Party’s standard bearer for his long term relationship with Rev. Jeremiah Wright. There are even rumors that David Axelrod and other top staffers thought Obama’s chances to be elected president might be over. McCain merely had to start no later than the middle of May talking about Rev. Wright—and Obama’s campaign should have been destroyed by September. The majority of Americans would have opted for McCain. The GOP candidate would have been perceived as the prudent choice. Obama would have been deemed too risky. Neither Romney, Giuliani, nor Thompson would have blundered this badly. They would have rightfully aimed for Obama’s jugular. McCain is unfortunately your quintessential guilt tripped white man who is terrified of being charged with racism. He was an awful choice. That is why he received an important endorsement from the New York Times—and Florida Governor Charlie Crist.
Well said Mr. Thomson.
Thank you for the compliment. There is another point that must also be added. It is the scam operation perpetuated by the Ivy League universities. Much was made about Obama’s “elite” credentials. Unfortunately, very few Americans are aware that a soft science Ivy League degree is often a piece of crap. This is especially true if you are a member of a minority community. Obama is obviously an affirmative action baby. He is intellectually shallow and poorly read. The man is incapable of thinking and following a logical argument at a high level.
“He is intellectually shallow and poorly read.”
Indeed. Just look at his virtual illiteracy as far as ME, Jewish and Israeli history is concerned.
Or, of course, he could be lying deliberately.
“It’s over. For all the excitement of his election, having lied his way into office, Barack Obama was essentially DOA his first night at the White House.”
How very ironic that Roger’s assessment sums up everything David Thomson has written since Jan. 20, 2009. David is clearly one of the most astute observers of American politics now writing.
David, I agree, and I’d also add that he is incapable of adapting. Adaptability (especially in a politician – see Clinton, Bill) is a key ingredient of intelligence. I now write off every public person who still claims Obama is bright. There is ZERO evidence to support that assertion.
As far as Jerry’s comment goes, Obama may indeed be a non-violent psychopath, but it seems clear he is a narcissistic sociopath. That type lies as easily as they breathe. Obama displays the cold aloofness, disengaged attitude, and utter lack of empathy peculiar to narcissists and sociopaths. We definitely have a seriously dysfunctional personality in the Oval Office. But MANY of us saw this well over 2 years ago and I, for one, will not let ANY of his voters off the hook. There is no excuse for such aggressive self-delusion and stupidity. (Keeping in mind that Juan McCainez is a pure disaster in his own right.)
Excellent and succinct summation, Roger!
DT,
I agree 100%. McCain did a lousy campaign. No fire at all. I would also respond, the republican party has the same flaw, not enough piss and vinegar.
IMHO, that flaw is directly responsible for the Tea Party movement. Look at Sen Bennett. He dismisses the Tea Party as a losing ideology. This type of republican needs to go. ( As he has. )
I have been all over the Ivy League connection for a while. I will not for for an Ivy League candidate.
We can put more acceptable candidates in office, but that has to be the start. The infrastructure, beaurocracy and schools of this country need our attention.
I think you make several excellent points, but you don’t address the fact that Obama was able to win partly by riding the press’s demonization of Sarah Palin and partly because of McCain’s many missteps with regard to the economy. Shortly after the Republican convention, McCain had his post-convention bounce and was leading in the polls. All the talk was about Sarah Palin, and the press was doing everything possible to take her down. I know several people (including at least one who claims to be a Republican) who say that they refused to vote for McCain because they didn’t like his choice of Palin (or more accurately, because they bought into the media spin campaign against her, when it should have been clear Palin was only a VP candidate and that Obama was a riskier choice for President). Within a few short weeks we were facing the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy and then the problems with Fannie and Freddie, and McCain looked confused at best and clueless at worst. That also pushed many other voters over to the Obama camp because Obama was at least staying on message–even if though the was just reading from a script written by a 20-something leftist hack.
I remember turning to my wife on the day McCain said he was suspending his campaign and suggested that Obama do the same, and said…….it’s lost.
The Selection of Sarah Palin would have been a non issue if McCain had earlier taken Obama to task for his long term relationship with Rev. Wright. This race should have been over by September—long before the financial crisis hit Washington, DC.
Even given all that, have Obama’s academic credentials been made available for review by his employers, that “public” of which he is Servant? Or are they too part of the “privacy” as is the birth certificate and other documents usually required for employment in positions of responsibility? A question of correct/usual administrative procedures as are general in employment choices to determine,even in the days of affirmative action, qualifications,experience/abilities, of the candidate for the job. Odd that such common procedures were discounted, dismissed, not followed for the job of CEO/Chief Executive of the largest, significant Organisation in the Western World? As Obama is the candidate for the “Democratic” Party of the USA it is reasonable to consider the DNC to have been remiss in this usual administrative procedure. But of couea being “rebels” with little respect for established rituals, they can be excused for failure in this instant, no?
Sadly – I have to agree with you. McCain gave us Obama.
Yes, he did. And the primaries gave us McCain instead of a real conservative.
I think it is more likely that McCain put Senatorial collegiality above mere partisan rankor. (Or least that’s how I envision him phrasing it.)
He found it impossible to believe that a fellow Senator could sink that low.
Yes, it was a lost opportunity. No doubt McCain didn’t want to be called a raaaaacist.
Another WTH moment was the National Service Day which brought the two candidates together during which McCain referred to Obama’s work as a community organizer as “outstanding”.
The best illustration of this was a September? 2008 V show, where Whoopy Goldberg began yelling and asking poor McCain whether she should expect to be forced to wear an iron collar in case republicans would win -
And McCain, instead of simply walking out (although Whoopy deserved a couple of slaps for this), sat there immobile, sayin “yes m’am, no m’am” –
In that moment I knew that he was a goner – unable to muster the nerve to hit back at this bunch of gross opportunists -
I don’t think McCain could have talked about Wright and Obama’s history, with Kenya for example. He wasn’t born there but he was involved in their politics on the Marxist side. This country, at least those who rely on “feelings” to determine how to vote, were in love with the idea of a black president. They would now accept it but not then. If Colin Powell had accepted the GOP nomination in 1996, we would have gotten this over and rational thought would have hooted Obama out of town.
Whether or not pointing out JWright’s black-liberation-theology-Louis Farrakhan-loving foundations would have turned the tide, one of John McCain’s most fundamental weaknesses is a tendency to faux civility.
Apparently, he thought he was taking the high ground in not going there during the campaign.
His pretend niceness did we the people a great disservice.
There is very little distance between Shabazz rants and Farrakhan rants (right down to the legions of soldiers always in the background) and very little distance between Obama’s long association with JWright and Eric Holder’s positioning in the NBPP case.
Birds of a feather, stirring up racial animosity and attempting to reconfigure the American experience as we speak.
All correct, David. When will your predicted breakdown come? I see it more possible now, but all scenarios discount the “back room gang”. When he/they near the precipice, won’t the guns come out? All statist/socialist endeavors end that way.
They’ve already begun a “long, hot summer” of racial unrest. What’s next?
What horrendous “Reichstag Fires” will they create to scapegoat conservatives/Libertarians/Tea Partiers with?
David, You make a good point however to blame McCain I think would be a mistake. From everything I have read it was the youth vote that put BHO in office. The explanation for this may be the following-
http://old.nationalreview.com/kurtz/allforeigngiftsreport.html
Young people and educational institutions have bee corrupted. This softening up process continues. Professors are happy to ignore the truth when it feathers their own nests. Live for today is the American mantra. Prepare the world for your grandchildren to rule is the Saudi mantra. Money well spent.
It was indeed the young vote who put Obama over the top in the election. My step-daughter, extremely intelligent, was an Obama supporter and she voted for him because of the “perfect storm” created by George Bush and his fellow Republicans who abandoned their “principles” and created an air of cronyism that young people abhor. On election night, she told me that she regularly received emails and texts from the Obama campaign and had never felt important enough to be part of something historic. As I watched the Narciscist speak after it was apparent that he’d won, I told her that this was the worst day in the history of the United States and that one day she’d realize her mistake. We do not discuss politics any longer and I hope she’ll be less inclined to vote for Obama again, that is if he doesn’t create a “crisis” and banishes the next Presidential election.
McCain would rather have the Democrats say he was a real gentleman and a good loser than have the Republicans say he was a good winner. On the positive side, with Obama in office they can’t blame the country’s messes on the Republicans , try as they might!
Larry, that is exactly what they will do: blame the Republicans. You should be listening to Rush today. Republicans take the House in January (and maybe the Senate). All kinds of repugnant legislation (Crap & Tax, Card Check, etc.) will have been shoved through by a “Screw you all” lameduck Dem Congress. (Don’t forget, they want to confiscate all 401(k) funds as well.) Jan. 1, the tsunami arrives of tax increases, healthcare requirements and fines, expiration of Bush tax cuts, and a series of demands from Obama to pass the VAT tax, to eliminate mortgage deductions, etc., etc.
The Republicans will be left holding the enormous bag of extrement left by the Dems and facing the demands to greatly increase taxes even further to pay for all this CRAP. The MFM will work 24/7 to blame Republicans for ALL problems of the past years that started with the DEMOCRAT Congress of 2007 and accelerated the past 2 years under the Radical-in-Chief, and will spend the next 2 years holding Republicans responsible for the failures to bring down the debt and deficits. This is to set up Obama for the 2012 reelection. Do you have faith in Republicans’ ability to communicate in any way, shape or form who caused this disaster and who did not? I sure don’t! We’re going to be stuck with some horrible statists as it is (Mike Castle, anyone?).
As Rush says, DON’T DOUBT ME.
Full agreement here. Also your points about the Ivy League are well taken. I was a grad student at Brandeis back-when, and it was clear from conversations that an undergraduate work load and expectations there easily exceeded those at Harvard. You did not slide by at Brandeis if you wanted good grades. You could at Harvard.
McCain absolutely skirted the issue. By the time he gingerly began to raise the issue of Obama’s massive racism and anti-Semitism (indirectly), it was too late. The mysterious crash had occurred. McCain had also damaged himself seriously with his ‘suspension of campaign’ followed by his goofy appearance at the White House, when Bush and staff let everyone know how ‘thrilled’ they were at McCain’s appearance.
So part of it as well is that the GOP mainstays and talk show hosts were lukewarm at best about him. Limbaugh and friends pilloried McCain before and during the primaries. Many Republican faithful types probably did not vote.
Let’s be thankful for this: The Obama win in ’08 has dragged a lot of the Left’s anti-capitalist, anti-American delusions out into the open where we can all see it.
That’s the good thing about the Obama Administration; it is making our choices clear.
Jed-
I believe that if McCain had won, we would be facing the same dangers wrought by Obama, except we would be unaware of most actions because McCain might have had the intelligence needed to hide his actions. I hope this is one of the reasons behind our Tea Party work to oust all the criminals, both Ds AND Rs…
David Thomson:
Thanks for your thoughtful ananysis in responding to Mr. Simon’s article. I’ve read some of your comments in the past and am very impressed with your insight into reality. Unclothing the phoney John McCain is a masterpiece of large caliber gunnery.
I have for some time been attempting to create a spark of interest among conservative Americans in putting forth a potential candidate for the presidency in 2012.
Someone from outside the legal profession, someone not from the Ivy League, someone who might think about promoting the interests of America and the American People rather than building a shrine somewhere from which the elites of the world rule in the new UNTOPIA.
My horse has been Dr. Victor Davis Hanson. Those who have read him and seen some of his personal or videotaped presentations might understand why. He is an honest, intellectual, patriotic American. He has the firepower to be a great President within his brilliance in presenting the real, not phoney, made up issues, in a clear and concise manner that even some of follow the herd types might be able to understand.
The world is in deep deep trouble and another “ruler” from inside the “political class” is not going to change the course of history. Esteemed commenter, please help me out here. Do you know of someone who might step forward and unite the conservatives who still want to preserve what’s left of the United States of America?
I strongly suspect that Victor Davis Hanson agrees with me completely: he should not run for president in 2012! Ideology is simply not enough. The man would make an outstanding adviser—but he has never been a governor nor managed a large enterprise of any kind. Hanson lacks sufficient executive experience. We should instead be looking primarily at successful governors. Such individuals have a track record of running something. U.S. senators usually know only how to shoot their mouth off. Hanson will be very helpful in offering advice on who should be the next GOP presidential candidate. I will definitely be listening carefully.
David:
We should instead be looking primarily at successful governors. Such individuals have a track record of running something.”
I agree with a lot of what you have to say, but…
I believe that honesty, integrity, intelligence, dedication, to country and a proven allegiance to our constitutional republic trumps any governor’s chair. Having bought a governorship from a corrupt political system is not enough to qualify any man or woman to be president of my country.
I also believe that the key qualification for President is the ability to identify problems and surround him or her self with highly qualified professionals who have the ability to design and implement soulutions to the problems that further the interests of the United States of America and explain it to the American People.
Before I rest my case, please consider the names of Jimmy Carter, William Jefferson Clintion and the current Governor of the great state of California, whose name I cannot spell much less pronounce. How did those sixteen or so years work out?
Do you have a name you’d like to put out here in public for our consideration as a candidate in 2012?
CGW-
I truly enjoy reading the works of Dr. Hanson, however, I don’t think he’d be a good candidate. He’s an advisor, an educator and a cultured voice, but he is not a leader (and I write that with all respect). He’d probably be wonderful as a member of a President’s advisory staff, covering both higher education and agriculture, and probably small business affairs as well- not to mention war-time ambassadorships.
Again though, with all due respect to his knowledge, intelligence and capabilities, I just don’t see him as a national leader. Perhaps I’m wrong on that count, but that’s my current call. Besides, I’d rather have him on the outside, critiquing whoever actually was in office, and putting forth a well reasoned and intelligent perspective for others to think about.
Agreed! BUT WHAT IS AMERICA/the USA these days? There have been so many abrogations, “salami slicing” of rights of Americans by “representatives of the people”, judges and legal scholars, who as self-elected clerisy interprest the LAW for mere mortals. Mortals who, lacking the training of “elite” professors and universities, cannot be expected to understand the words and meanings of the LAW on which their nation is founded, although written in the national language, plain English.I supposed the CONSTITUTION OF THE USA to be the fundamental law, the “Bible” of the USA. Is it now the case that American citizens do not/cannot understand the words and meanings of their LAW/Rights?
But require a self-appointed clerisy to interpret them? As companion and rationale for the Constitution the was explanatory document and rationale, the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE is also written in plain English.Has that also been abrogated for Americans of the late 20th and early 21st centuries? For example entanglements in foreign affairs as exemplified by the United Nations. Answerable only to and through politicians and “elite”. A clear unlawful power grab by these groups. Another abrogation of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Yet accepted,lauded and paid for by Americans. Is this then the America of free independent citizens with no “elite”/royalty/aristocracy to “watch over”/ control them?
The USA today, Obama merely the symbolic creation under the noses of American citizens by power hungry “elite” who resent the power of the people to determine their own national identity and destiny. Who have gulled these essentially honest citizens to believing in their lies and frauds. And so we have the USA today.
Can this America still claim to be the last best hope for mankind. That DREAM that promise of the ancestors who fought long and hard in two intra-national wars to bring forth that promise, to their own citizens AND THE WORLD> Not to forget that these 2 documents the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE AND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE USA,
Maybe if McCain had been more forceful on a few key weaknesses of the Obama/media narrative it would have made a difference. But it wasn’t even close to being the key factor. The key factor was the carefully constructed false narrative of Obama as Messiah and the American public’s appalling willingness to be swindled by it. The narrative was a lie. the entire “fairy tale (as Clinton called) it was constructed by a powerful few and enormously amplified by the media. And the MSM, supposedly dying and irrelevant, was anything but in 2008, because the voters bought the myth, they bought the whitewash, they bought the absolute lack of information or even curiosity about who this man who had never had a real job was.
Roger’s main point is that Obama’s candidacy, and his election, were based on a lie. The public has now seen that. But Rev. Wright wasn’t the giveaway. That happened before the election, and the electorate still chose to look away. No, the beginning of the disillusionment was that news conference a year ago when Obama called the white Boston cop who cuffed the drunken lout Skip Gates “stupid.” That was when a big portion of the previously gullible public finally said, “excuse me?” I thought we were getting a post racial president, and I looking at Al Sharpton here. And of course, he has been lying ever since. Because that’s what he does. Partly to please everyone by telling them what they want to hear. Partly to conceal his real agenda, Alinsky-like. Partly to conceal his ignorance. And partly because he is, and has always been, a fraud just making it up as he goes along.
But Roger is right. The public sees that now, and this souffle ain’t rising twice. GHe can never recreate the illusion. I think there is actually nothing he can do now to recover his approval ratings. Since his whole act was, and is, a fraud, that will simply become more apparent. The sage pundits who say he will, or could, “pivot” and adopt more mainstream policies in time for 2012 have not observed him. He is like the scorpion in the old scorpion and frog joke. He can’t “pivot” and not sting the frog to save himself, because it is not his nature to do so. He will continue to attack the country he so deeply loathes. And he will continue to jeer and ridicule the increasing majority of citizens who have awakened to the horror they have visited upon themselves. By January 2012 he will be an utter pariah. I think he won’t even run for reelection, because he won’t be able to face such a crushing repudiation. No, he will simply do absolutely as much damage to us as he can before January 2013.
Barack Obama could read the Bible out loud and I wouldn’t believe him not because God has lied but because Obama has proven so despicable and dark you would have to think there was some other motive besides what the author intended. Obama has not only lied to get into office it seems everything that comes out of his mouth is a lie. When a person is a proven, repetitious liar, how could anything that person says be believed. How many people believe Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton these days? These are men with an agenda, self interest and nothing else matters, not even the truth. They disgrace us all.
What I haven’t in the past and still don’t understand is how anyone could not see President Obama for what he is. When I first realized that he was a serious candidate and started to look him up online, it was clear that everything about him was false or hidden. I still don’t know really who he is. Since he is the leader of this country, I feel I have a right to know.
I still have trouble believing that people could not see through Obama after seeing him speak a few times. That he is a liar, a con man, a fraud, is so apparent as to be immediately understood. You watch his eyes, his facial expressions, the body language, the cadence of his speech. All reveal a con man, exclusive of the lack of content in his rhetoric. Then, as you examine his background, the details, it confirms that impression. The man is a living misrepresentation, everything is false, phoney, not what it appears to be on the surface.
Barack Obama was the beneficiary of white race guilt. Voting for him was a way for these individuals to earn redemption. It really is that simple. On top of that, there was another major reason: most voters did not believe the 2008 election was of particular importance! The economy was seemingly doing fine and the future looked fairly bright. We should not forget that the TARP bailout crisis did not occur until the early part of October. The majority of Americans were surprised and somewhat confused. They had already pretty well decided on Obama—who was being marketed as a man cool under pressure and highly intelligent.
I agree, David. But I also think McCain would have suffered the wrath of the media had he pursued the Wright connection. He probably doesn’t have an awareness of how destructive the black race mongers are to blacks and would have been incapable of handling the issue competently. He was in a Vietnamese prison when radical chic became established, and he has no direct experience of the effects of black power, the Black Panthers and ACORN-type groups on inner city life and the education of young blacks. He is exactly the kind of person to feel white guilt.
Obama also hit all the right buttons for the poorly educated young who wanted to focus on ending war forever and saving polar bears. Most of these would not have bothered voting for a candidate talking about real problems and hard choices.
And, of course, we can’t forget the brain-dead status voters who personally feel no white guilt but are willing to condemn clinging rednecks to make them atone for their sins. The latter are the ones who Tom Wolfe says switched from black to Latino servants when the former would have been embarassing at their Black Panther parties. I wonder who cleans the floors at Tom Friedman’s lttle cottage.
John McCain could have easily weathered the inevitable slime jobbing of the MSM. This really would not have been such a big deal. The American voters could have been persuaded after giving the matter just a little thought. They would have most likely concluded that Obama was simply not the right man of color to become president. Many GOP politicians chicken out too readily. Things are not all that bad—if one is willing to do some modest push back.
There seems to be something about the water in places like D.C. and NYC. Anyone, after living there a few years actually starts to believe things like “govt knows best” and “America can do nothing right internationally”.
All of you on this ‘sub-thread’ have fact and truth in your arguments.
However, just like Roger Simon, you all, even David, waaaay underestimate the stupidity of the teacher-dumbed down American public. They’ll snap at the same bait time after time.
McCain could have had his proxies do it. But he didn’t want to stir up all the racial ghosts.
Yes, Obama was partly expected to assuage the white guilt complex Shelby Steele so eloquently describes. But he was also elected after an 8-year relentless narrative against George W. Bush and the “neocons.” The MSM, the celebrities, the pop culture wore the public down (as, of course, did Bush’s abominable communications skills and his blockheaded refusal to rein in the growth of government and government spending.) But the “hope and change” dream was not merely about white guilt. It was about the resurrection of Camelot, deliverance from the grim anti-Bush narrative of the Left’s stranglehold on our institutions, and an infatuation with celebrity and glamour. The voters allowed themselves to be told how to think and feel. And they may have done it at a time of such national weakness that we will not soon, or ever, recover from the gleeful destruction now raining down upon us from the Democrat leadership ad their Marxist talking parrot.
David Thomson.
And my answer is that a con man is a con man, black, white, or in-between. I mean, really, we are used to politicians being hypocrites & phoney self-interested slimeballs. But, Obama takes this to a new level. Actually, he reminds me of some creep tele-evangelist asking for money. I don’t dispute your proposition that some, perhaps many, voted for him because of some white guilt. It’s also true that the media marketed him as some cure-all snake oil.
But, it remains that Obama’s phoniness was just SO obvious.
I guess people just wanted to be fooled.
Race guilt was the deciding factor. A Huey Long type could not have been successful. White politicians simply cannot exploit race guilt. There were countless examples of well meaning individuals freaking out over Obama’s skin color. They refused to even take a look at the abundantly clear evidence. The fear of being charged with racism was devastating.
I suppose that if someone is really a racist, than race guilt makes sense. For those of us who are not racists, who looked at Obama merely as a politician, who didn’t really care about his ”race” (is incompetent Leftist a race?), who ONLY saw a black man, than, for sure, race guilt played a major role. Personally, I think there are two contradictory elements at play in Obama’s bizarre psyche – one, he uses race opportunistically & really couldn’t care less about black people & at the same time, he is a most resentful SOB re: whites.
Absolutely dead on right. White politicians can’t exploit race guilt in this country. But it remains to be seen what corner we have finally turned here. White guilt may now be a dead issue in American politics. Besides, I have a feeling it might have been white guilt fatigue, rather than white guilt that prompted many white voters to choose him. He was going to be the post-racial president. A large segment of Americans are tired of carrying the racist label. They may not have publicly said so, but they were hoping electing a Black president might finally have let them off the hook.
David, race is now DEAD as an issue. Not because we are post-racial – this country is by far more racially divided, especially since the immaculation (just as Rush said it would be). But the entire country sees that the “RAAAAACIST!” cry and epithet is being used BY racists against mostly NON-racists. Racism has truly jumped the shark. The charge has the validity of “Nazi!”
White guilt is dead; we can see the race hucksters are in and of the black community itself, perpetuating hatred and oppressing voters, tea partiers, etc. Most of the people I know are not cowed by this but motivated and energized. The New Black Panthers claim they will confront tea partiers in D.C. at the end of this summer. I know for a fact there are millions more of us than of them. We shall see.
Obama still has 90%+ support from the “OJ was framed crowd.”
Something else white-guilt fails to deal with.
http://thugreport.com/
Maybe because the victims are mostly also black.
I saw this as well. His cadences were trained and effectively mesmerizing to those who chose not to look at his past and his body language. The severely up-tilted chin is a dead giveaway to the fact of his belief in his own messianic destiny. Of course, a true ‘messiah’ would not act that way, but this is how a political messiah acts.
I recognized him as a demagogue immediately. He appeared as the perfect mechanism to work the white guilt, to provide a contrast to the shorter, older, strange (in his own right) George Bush – against whom Obama really ran and continues to run.
I saw the audiences reacting to him in a near-literal orgasmic manner, and concluded as well that the American public had changed significantly. That is not to say that there is no hope for the US, merely that the percentage of the ignorant and misguided has increased greatly in the past twenty years or so. As well, the media had fanned so much hatred of Bush that this helped topple the Dominos of Reason altogether.
Hi Larry. I knew absolutely nothing about the man, nothing much about his past. I only knew about Hillary & figured she would get the nomination. My sister (who lives in America) told me about Obama (”Oh, Terry, he’s wonderful, something NEW”) & so I made an effort to watch him speak. After a few minutes of watching the guy (I always watch politicians without the sound), I called my sister, laughing, & asked her if she had lost her mind. I remember exactly, I told her the guy is a creep, a phoney, full of BS. First impressions, right?
I graduated from high school in Massachusetts. There was one black person in our class. He was class president all four years. He was a decent guy but it was the color of his skin in the Northeast that got him elected. Such folks will vote for a black to prove that they are not racists unlike those racists in parts of the rest of the country. They do not believe that a black person can be bad. They might do some bad things but that is due to the discrimination they have been subjected to all their lives so allowances must be made for that. That is why such folks overlooked all of the evidence that Obama was a seriously flawed individual who could not even properly run a lemonade stand.
Terry,Eilat Very good observer, I think.
Did either of you see this political cartoon (I can’t remember what paper ran it):
A mother and daughter are sitting on a bench. The daughter is holding an empty box of chocolates that reads “Obama” on the cover. The mother says to the daughter: “It’s just an empty box.” The daughter replies: “I know, but it makes me feel such hope!”
Can’t get much more descriptive.
Many democrats are on the take. They don’t care about lies or BS as long as the pork keeps flowing. Democrats just need a few fools each election cycle.
It’s inconceivable to me also that people could not read this man and see what he was about. Seemed so obvious to me but yet I have a friend who is an assistant district attorney in a city of about 100,000 people, in the deep south, who supported Obama and told me that he could tell what a great and sincere person Obama is and what a change he could make in our country. This is an attorney(white) who sees con men, liars, theives and angry men on a daily basis in court. I just can’t comprehend how men like that can be so deceived.
53% of Americans voted for this man in 2008,what does that say about the body politic? The forty plus year assault on our culture has come to fruition.
Correction. Only 53% of those who voted, voted for Obama. Less than half of the population voted. (Many because of age limitations, for people like my wife who is more American than many born here, because she hasn’t finished the natualization process yet, then there are those who can’t be bothered.)
Mark: I appreciate your point but we can only count the people who actually got off their duff and voted.
There are many who want to vote, who weren’t permitted to legally.
No. 53% of Americans did not vote for this man. Nowhere close.
A certain percentage of Americans is qualified to vote. Of those that are qualified to vote, a certain percentage of them actually register. Of those who register to vote, a certain percentage of them actually vote. 53% of that MUCH SMALLER number voted for this man.
They represent something like 30% of Americans.
Can we please stop with this math ignorance that parades as fact. He was NOT elected by 53% of Americans.
You forgot one more factor: less than 53% of those who voted for Obama were eligible voters who got off their duff to vote. The rest were dead people, repeat votes, illegal immigrants, etc.
There will be much more of this in November. There has never been a more critical need for near 100% turnout – and even risk of life with black panthers at the polls. If nothing else, having more votes than eligible voters will at least expose the fraud.
None of which matters except academically. Of those who are eligible, legally eligible, who do not vote — for whatever reason — they by their not voting agree to accept the vote as it is counted. Passivity, uninterest, inactivity to participate in the act /the FREEDOM to vote for the persons who govern them in their nation IS A VOTE, whether they know it or not. Whatever the arithmetic.
What was Obama’s actual “majority” when all the Acorn / Black Panther intimidation / Union fraud / polling fraud / illegal alien voters are taken off the ballot? We’re learning from Christian Adams and PJM’s fantastic reporting that there was WIDESPREAD FRAUD across the board in the election of this demonic viper. We all know the Left’s hysterical accusation that Bush “stole” the 2000 election was little more than sour grapes and bitter slander. But the scandalous case of Barak Hussein Obama, through the willing connivance of the MSM, and a veritable army of insurgent traitors manned by unions and black terrorists, the 2008 election was probably the heist of all heists. That too is a giant lie upon which this brittle sociopath was “elected”.
It seems to me that Obama suffers from pandemic, epidemic and out of control gullibility of all criticisms of Obama. Rev. Wright said nothing that Revs. Falwell, Robertson, Grahams, and others didn’t say — but he said it with a different cadence. Richard Nixon didn’t fail because of the “lie” that he didn’t listen to racist white preachers. George W. Bush’s failures were not connected to his “lie” that he didn’t listen to Falwell and Robertson.
Lyndon Johnson took a huge hit among conservatives for having expanded Social Security to eradicate poverty among the aged. But Johnson didn’t suffer from being abandoned by socially-conscious columnists who should know better, criticizing him for “turning America over to the Soviets” by passing that law.
Yeah, Obama was slow to move to clean up the Minerals Management Service. The disaster in the Gulf of Mexico had been in the making for the entire Bush administration, though, and it has no connection in any way to Rev. Wright.
Obama’s in trouble because columnists, like Roger Simon, are not speaking rationally about these problems. Rev. Wright didn’t collapse the housing market and the banks. Rev. Wright did not stand at the doors of the U.S. Treasury denying unemployment benefits to the unemployed, shouting “Poverty and Republicans now, Poverty and Republicans forever!”
There are real bad guys to blame here. Jeremiah Wright is not one of them, and Barack Obama generally isn’t either.
It wasn’t Abraham Lincoln’s fault that John Wilkes Booth was a murderous sympathizer with the South. It’s not Obama’s fault that Mitch McConnell won’t go along with anything that might make America more sound, and coincidentally make Obama look good.
It’s offensive that intelligent people can look at this situation, with elected officials working against America’s interests, and blame Obama, whose programs and wishes are victimized by those people.
“Rev. Wright said nothing that Revs. Falwell, Robertson, Grahams, and others didn’t say — but he said it with a different cadence.”
BS. I have yet to hear of Falwell, Robertson, etc. making the kind of racist and anti-semitic remarks Wright appears to make by reflex.
“Rev. Wright did not stand at the doors of the U.S. Treasury denying unemployment benefits to the unemployed, shouting “Poverty and Republicans now, Poverty and Republicans forever!” ”
Who did? I’ve never heard anyone say that.
Are you talking about Democrats, who refuse to shift money from one bucket to another to “pay for” unemployment benefits and instead insist on simply piling on more debt?
It’s blatantly obvious to those of us that have had to solve intractable problems in our lives, that Obama has no clue, and is largely indifferent until the political consequences reach an inflection point, than he takes largely political corrective action. His handlers are political hacks, (or ivory tower conceits) not problem solvers, and crises are political events to take advantage of (just ask them). It has become transparent to the ‘doers’ in this country that Obama is a phoney and incompetent. You are an apologist, and not a very good one.
Expanding SS did not eliminate poverty for anyone. SS as a whole has been an excellent program for creating poverty.
Your belief that govt is capable of doing good things is quaint, but disproven.
Expansion of Social Security for over-65s, accomplished in Johnson’s administration, essentially obliterated poverty in that age group. That was Johnson’s intention.
You have a right to your own opinion, Sen. Moynihan famously said, but you don’t have a right to a separate set of facts.
Ed, ” Rev. Wright said nothing that Revs. Falwell, Robertson, Grahams, and others didn’t say — but he said it with a different cadence. ”
When did Fallwell, Robertson or Graham ever preach ” G-d damn America ” as Wright did?
Could there be a more pathetic display of partisan worship than this whinny rant from Ed?
Ah, Mr Ed, you are honking like the mascot of your party – crying like a bitter teenager over having to wake up to just what Roger posted; You and those who were taken in by Obama now have to face what a liar and fraud he is.
And you can’t cope. So you ascribe awful racist and obliquely murderous charges to christian leaders most recognize as representitive of conservatives (Although not all accept them as universally as your ilk did ‘The One’ – our crowd not being into the mindless leader thing; to the contrary, its a signature tennet of conservative to be quite HARD ON OUR OWN – self reflection & self criticism as aticdote to shallow narcassism. But that takes effort – as in actually thinking).
Instead, in classic liberal cant you spew unsubstantiated falsehoods purely to offend rather than add anything to the discussion.
Fact is, like Jimmy Carter before him Obama came into office IN THE AFTERMATH OF A CONGRESSIONAL TAKEOVER. Pelosi in the House & Reid in the Senate – with near historic majority numbers – which represented a rare moment – a moment when even mediocre leadership could accomplish a hefty agenda.
But what did Obama do? He screwed the pooch; even Health Care was a strong arm 11th hour hollow ‘victory’ – ZERO support from the opposition – a phased in tawdy display of ‘Deem & Pass’ maneuvers shoved down the publics throat over their objections.
Just like Carter. Historic opportunity becomes a fiasco.
And You know it Ed. This is why and your ilk ooze bitterness when you claim ‘Mitch McConnell…bla bla bla… & the Filibuster…bla bla bla..” It is the most unserious retort to serious issues about governance. YOUR TEAM HAD FILIBUSTER PROOF MAJORITIES FOR ALMOST A YEAR BEFORE LOOSING THEM TO A SPECIAL ELECTION!!!
But still you passively claim some ‘conspiracy’ got in the way? That is the logic of a ten year old.
From ’06 to ’08 you had congressional majorities but – the public was sold in the campaign of ’08 – Pelosi & Reid needed a partner in the WH to move the country forward.
The voters gave it to you. And your people, your savior at the helm, simultaneously WRECKED THE COUNTRY – AND MANAGED TO RESSURECT THE OPPOSITION. And Roger is right – making it all the more intolerable.
And your answer? To amble over to a conservative blog to whine?
All too typical Mr Ed. Hilarious and pathetic at the same time.
Yes, many of us noticed that the Senate Republicans especially did everything they could to sabotage America. The words from the Excellence in Education Report work here, too: Had a foreign nation tried to do to us what the Republicans did, we’d consider it an act of war.
I’m pretty sure Osama bin Laden is on vacation — what could he do to destroy America worse than what the Republicans have done?
Everybody who was alive and sentient on September 11, 2001, should remember this famous incident. I cannot imagine anyone forgetting it.
Here’s Falwell and Robertson saying America “deserved” to be attacked.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zkaQXHSjug
How could you forget? What sort of incredibly selective memory is that?
There is a difference between placing a curse on a country and claiming that a countries actions result in divine retribution.
I don’t think either Falwell or Robertson intended to “put a curse on” the U.S.
If you’re arguing that was Wright’s idea, you have a reading and listening comprehension problem. Get the full text, get the full video.
There is no difference between Wright’s claims and Falwell’s claims, substantively, except that Wright cites a serious problem. Racism is a sin. Tolerance of sexual preference is not a sin, according to the prophet Ezekial. But then, neither Robertson nor Falwell seemed to be to be much up on scripture and what it says. Maybe others are similarly unfamiliar with what scripture actually says.
Ed, if you are going to lie, the last thing you should do is present the information that proves you are lying.
Falwell did not say that America deserved to be attacked, he said that the attack was the result of God lifting his protection from America because of various actions that Falwell disapproves of.
The difference is not all that subtle, but apparently it’s too much for someone like you.
If you’re going to accuse me of lying, please stop pulling claims out from between your gluteals. Show us the scripts.
Ed,
You’re completely missing the point.
The reason why Barack was forced to make that speech wasn’t *just* because Wright had said offensive things.
You see, what makes this difference from Fallwell (etc.) is that no previous presidential candidate had HIRED ON a racist preacher as a SPIRITUAL ADVISER. I mean, its one thing to know an out and out racist. Its quite another to go to their church for 20 years and never actually realize that they say racist things.
Its a third – and completely unbelievable thing – to decide that you want that person to be giving you spirtual advice on the campaign trail. Imagine a Republican hiring David Duke as their social adviser. I presume you now understand what a complete faux pas that would be?
You see, once you hire on a racist spiritual adviser… people might come to the ‘wrong’ conclusion that you like to be racist. When you deny that you ever heard such things (after 20 years in the church, and having been married by that racist) then people question your honesty.
And when you say that its a good ‘teaching moment’; that now that you know he was a racist, but you can’t denounce him anymore then you could your racist grandmother? That’s how we know that person is a racist too.
Nor did Obama. What makes this different is that people imagine Obama to have done things he didn’t do, and without shame or any blushing, they accuse him of those things.
George Wallace didn’t have to hire an advisor to be racist in his 1968 presidential campaign. Strom Thurmond didn’t have to hire an advisor to be a racist in his campaign in 1948.
I’ll wager you could benefit from some study of history, to make sure you get the facts right, so we don’t repeat those nasty errors.
Oh, I failed to mention it: Jeremiah Wright was never “spiritual advisor” to the Obama campaign. Especially, he was never hired by the campaign.
If it weren’t for stuff you guys make up whole cloth, you wouldn’t have anything at all to say.
As an optimist, I believe the nation will somehow survive the 0bama “precedency.” However, we will not survive the kind of mentality that got him elected. Liberalism/statism/progressivism and those who are its die-hard dead-enders must be perpetually kept in check because we cannot survive another 0bama. That means taking back the schools, the culture, the media and most importantly the family.
Agree totally….Obama has done great damage, but much of it can be undone legislatively. However how do we undo 40 years of brainwashing the American citizens mind?
When a significant percentage of Americans, by polls, think socialism is not a bad thing, what does that say about our future, with or without an Obama-type president?
The cat’s cradle of statutes, regulations and regulatory agencies empowered to enforce their own rules WILL NOT be undone by legislation. Bills of thousands of pages, hidden pills and earmarks?
This could only be done by a new Constitutional Convention and a 2nd Republic.
France is on its 6th Republic.
Neither can three-four generations of indoctrination be undone with less than SIX generations of ‘nudging’.
America will never do either until she has hit bottom, and that’s the Mad Max World.
Perhaps that’s why we got the ONE.
Obama was elected on a Democrat Driven “Blame Bush” wave, despite the fact that the DNC had controlled Congress for 2 years and Voted FOR a lot of the things they were casting blame for. Into the first year the DNC Mantra of “Blame Bush” continued… and into the second year “Blame Bush” has ironically continued.
Obama and the Democrats have finally pushed the credibility gap too far. People have awoken to the fact that Obama ain’t a quarter of the President that George W. Bush was and that Bush WASN’T to blame after all.
“It’s over.”
Unfortunately, no. We’re more at the point where we ate the bad chicken & we just got done with the first throw down into the toilet, but god help us we know we’ve only just begun to get rid of the poison.
I’m so tired of this bastard I can’t even begin to tell.
The next trip to the can for a purge will be during the lame duck congress after the elections in November with card-check, an energy bill and, quite likely, a VAT by vandals who, upon losing their seats, will bitterly deface the country on the way out the door. The health care debacle was just a preview of what these people are capable of, and Obama will sign any of these bills that cross his desk, knowing it’s harder to repeal than it is to enact. Oddly, the healthcare bill was the real wake-up call to the citizenry when something so obviously poorly conceived was jammed through with platitudes like “We have to pass it to find out what’s in it” and Pelosi’s latest spark of brilliance about unemployment checks being the best way to create jobs. That Obama, and the progressives pushing this stuff, still believe that they can rattle this stuff off and that we’ll swallow it is an insult. The Republicans had better get their act together, though, and come up with something besides just a lot of finger-pointing and partisan blather, or they’ll be handed their hats in short order, too.
I am reminded of the way the outgoing Clinton staffers treated their offices and their office equipment. More ominous still, I am reminded of how Dubya downplayed the destruction as trivial.
At some point, we have to get serious with these thugs.
And too tired to keep a civil tongue, too.
So, do the diplomatic thing. Keep quiet, and fewer with believe you a fool when you’re less tired and have something of substance to say.
Far too limited a critique. Barack Obama isnt a liar, his philosophy is a
lie. And that philosophy lives as the normal assumptions of the majority
of Americans.
MultiCuluralism, or more specifically the Cult of Repudiation..the repudiation
of Western Civilization by the West itself lives on in every school, every
University, every political party. Nothing has been done to challenge it. Obama is an object of derision because he failed the cause. The cause lives on and will produce the next Barack Obama. Furthermore the acts of a President live on for generations. We are still living with the consequences of Jimmy Carter handing Iran over to the Islamists all in the name of toleration and openness ..and that act may yet prove fatal for the world. Barack Obama’s legacy will be similar a 4 year spell of delusion and denial that gave the Third World, Russia, and Islam just the momentum it needed to destroy the West. This coupled with the internal demographic destruction of traditional
America via mass immigration will make Barack Obama not the least consequential
President in our history but the most consequential.
ehunter
Exactly. Obama is a product of the Big Lie. The Marxist, socialist lie. Despite protestations to the contrary leftists hate human beings in general and in particular they hate worst we have to offer, an individualist. The elites would prefer to herd people like cattle wielding the power of life and death over them. Too harsh? I don’t think so. Just examine Obama’s position on abortion. The most radical of any politician ever – ever. Think I am overstating it? Right now they are holding the carrot stick in front of Nigeria for foreign aid, all they have to do is legalize abortion…
But George W. Bush was the radical because he refused to allow American foreign aid to be used to kill babies. One guess what Obama’s very first act as President was? Rescinding Bush’s executive order. Obama is a death dealer, simple as that.
No, Obama is the victim of Big Lie techniques, and shame on you for piling on.
Marxism? Socialism? Your post shows no hint that you understand what any of those multi-syllable words mean. It takes a real propaganda pro, or an incredibly gullible dupe, to accuse Obama of either Marxism or Socialism.
The only one practicing the big lie here is you Ed.
‘S true; our affirmative-action president himself lacks the intelligence and education to understand those words. He is a puppet for thugs, plain and simple.
You’re right about “our affirmative action president.”
Fortunately, his term is over. Obama replaced him in January 2008.
You missed a lot while you were out of it, Rip.
Oops. Typo. Shoulda been “January 2009.”
How is the “post racial experiment” working out, *America?
*Typically meant as The United States of America, but with Mexico joining the Team Obama lawsuit against Arizona, dismissal of videoed prima facie evidence of Black Panther voter intimidation U.S. I guess the “post” can be scratched, thereby making it A “racial experiment”.
I think the Gulf Oil disaster is his Waterloo for 2 reasons.
(1) The Big Government he is committed to has failed at “saving the envirnment” in the Gulf, another leftist cause. Big Government has shown itself to be inefficient at best and this regime is showing itself to be derelict / destructive in its response at worst. So, Obama has shown that he is more committed to Big Government than to the environment. The results of his Big Gov’t and his administrations actions / inaction is a Gulf that is being polluted day after day. He has shown that Big Gov’t cannot (or will not) be good stewards of the environment.
(2) Mr. Obama has also shown himself to be a liar when it comes to jobs in the Gulf region. He claims he is focused on jobs…. in reality he’s focused on destroying them by putting BP out of business and with the off-shore drilling ban getting rid of good-paying jobs in the region, and in the entire country.
While many were convinced with the health-care law that Obama was not good for America, I think many more now see him for the Marxist he is because of what he has done during the Gulf Oil disaster.
Agree with much of what has been said above and am most concerned by the sheer number of people who wanted to be fooled by this guy. Those of us who saw through him from the beginning never saw his appeal or understood it.
In addition to the NBPP voter intimidation, many of the Hillary volunteers are cheered that the documentary, “We Will not be Silenced”, is getting some attention.
I have faith in the American system and in Americans. We will move beyond this dark time and we will overcome. It will take time and I’m just waiting to roll up my sleeves and do what it takes. Bring on the elections.
No, this time it really is different. And if we go on..we will “go on”
without huge segments of the country. California once the most
successful state in the union is now the model for the future.
Effectively it is a third world cesspool. The cultural roots that
allowed regeneration of America after every previous catastrophe
have been destroyed. There is nothing to regrow.
I altogether agree with ehunter, who writes, “The cultural roots that allowed regeneration of America after every previous catastrophe have been destroyed. There is nothing to regrow.”
Those “cultural roots” would be the Judeo-Christian dispensation and Christianity, which undergirded Magna Carta and the US Constitution. Non-government, intermediary institutions, like the Church and the natural family, have protected the individual from the raw power of the state. Not any more: get rid of Christianity and the family and the individual is at the complete mercy of the state.
Multiculturalism and egalitarianism, the deliberately anti-Christian creeds of our educational institutions, have effectively empowered the state at the cost of individual autonomy and freedom. Many people recognize that things aren’t going well, and then Pollyanna-like, say, “It’s got to get better.” Well, no it doesn’t. To paraphrase ehunter’s “There is nothing to regrow”, “You can’t turn a sow’s ear into a silk purse”.
Obama can be sent packing, but the termites are still gnawing away at the foundation.
It’s too soon to give up. People thought we were toast during Jimmy Carter’s term, too. It can always be turned around if we’re determined. It’s going to be horrible, but it can be done.
“The Reverend Wright affair. I thought it was serious at the time. In retrospect, I think it was disastrous, probably fatal.”
I disagree. I think the main moment where Obama threw it all away was with “Joe the Plumber.” Throughout his campaign, Obama chanted that he was a “centrist” and that he would govern from the middle, thereby getting the votes of all of those foolish independents who believed him. But the “Joe the Plumber” moment let the mask slip and showed Obama for what he was and still is, a rank Socialist bent on turning this country into a European-style welfare state.
Think about it. As soon as Obama got elected what did he do? He pushed every form of Socialist legislation that made even the French, THE FRENCH, demure. He nationalizaed two car companies just to help out the Unions that were, basically, running them. He did this only to protect Union jobs and screwed the bond holders in both companies, calling them “greedy” and (his usual insult) “un-patriotic” for actually wanting to get paid on their investments. The bond holders got fleeced, but the Union workers came out of it fine, along with their pension funds.
He passed a Congressional budget as soon as he got into office with billions of dollars of pork in it for the states, mostly to support state-held union jobs, even though during the campaign he said he would go through the budget “line by line” and cut out the pork. Please, did you ever meet a liberal who didn’t ADORE more government spending, especially when it helps the Teacher’s Union?
Obama passed the over $800 billion stimulus bill that only stimulated, wait for it, a few union jobs around the country. It certainly didn’t keep the unemployment rate down and it is now widely regarded as a failure by the American people.
Then there was health care. Need I say more? Europe, here we come and the American public wanted no part of it, yet we got it whether we liked it or not. So much for a representative Republic. The will of the people means precious little to a liberal with an agenda.
And this “centrist” candidate has put us trillions (that’s trillions with a “T”) of dollars in debt, a debt we really have no hope of repaying. Sure, we had still manageable debt under Bush, but nothing on a scale like this. We are quickly becoming that European-style welfare state Obama pined for all of his life and the American people don’t like how this movie is about to turn out. The incompetance of the reaction to the BP oil spill and our disastrous foreign policy was only the icing on the cake, but it’s Obama’s socialism and total disregard for the Constitution that really has enraged the American public. This is NOT what America is all about, it is NOT the founding principle that America was built on, and it is NOT the direction the country wants to go in.
All of these socialistic beliefs can also be found in Black Nationalism, the political philosophy promoted by lunatics like “Reverand” Wright. Also, with Obama’s Union/SEIU roots, his life-long support for ACORN, his rants against banks and big business, his friendship with disgusting ex-terrorists like Bill Ayers (who also happens to be, go figure, a Communist), and his constant desire to “redistribute wealth,” is it any surprise that Obama is what he is, a pathetic socialist from a black nationalist church in Chicago?
Obama told the nation everything that he truly was during his “Joe the Plumber” moment. The country, however, for some reason chose to ignore it. So did the Germans in the early 1930s when they ELECTED a man named Adolf Hitler, a national SOCIALIST.
Fully agree with your view of the Joe The Plumber moment as pivotal. But a close runner-up is what happened next. The drawing and quartering of Mr. Plumber, who only asked a question, taking the spotlight off the candidate. Whew! That was close, said BO.
Is it possible to be so ignorant of events and law, without actually trying? is it possible to be so ignorant without having used a self-lobotomy kit?
No company in the U.S. has been nationalized in over a hundred years. Loans were given to Chrysler and General Motors, with stiff terms on management changes that had to be made before the transfer of funds was done. GM is selling more stock in an IPO. There was no nationalization.
You got the facts dead wrong.
There was a bankruptcy proceeding for both companies. In bankruptcy, all union contracts are vitiated. Could you miss that fact of bankruptcy, and of these deals, accidentally? I don’t think so. Unions made massive concessions, to their detriment, including abandoning their pension and health care plans for a stake in the new company.
The bankruptcy proceedings, in federal bankruptcy court in the judicial branch, worked to protect as much wealth for all stakeholders as was possible. Bondholders got a 10% stake in the new company — can you compare that with what they had in the old company? That was a gift, since in bankruptcy the bondholders would have sat behind secured creditors, and probably would have come out with about 10% of what they got.
Your recitation of the facts isn’t just wrong, it’s so screwed up that I don’t think you could have done it accidentally. Got Google? Please use it next time.
Ed, you’re correct that “nationalization” is a dramatization for effect — though it’s a very fair approximation of what happened. But you’re completely mistaken to describe either of the auto bankruptcies as the ordinary application of bankruptcy law. The bankruptcy law specifically forbade the kind of special treatment doled out to non-priority stakeholders on the basis of their political clout. However, because too many large bondholders were successfully threatened by the government, the matter did not get tested on appeal. That was thuggery, not law.
Which provisions of bankruptcy law prohibit what was done in the car deals?
And, how did the car manufacturers and courts get around that prohibition, if it exists?
All above comments are valid, but I believe there is something deeper going on. For generations, Americans have been intent on acquiring assets, working hard to buy stocks, a small business, a second home. In these economic times, pretty much the only people who are not hurting are those with government pensions. People who are dependent on an income stream from stock dividends, in many cases (such as bank stocks), are in big trouble.
The rug has been pulled out – people who saved and accumulated assets are screwed; those who showed up for 40 years to a dead-end job are doing fine.
Terry – I heartily agree with all your posts and did from the outset.
The main thing that bothers me about this administration is trying to figure out why Obama doesn’t have anyone to stop him from committing this flood of lies. Or is there someone who DOES try to curtail the BS, but who is ignored at every step?
Every successful businessman, politician or public figure for that matter employs educated/knowledgeable people to keep them out of trouble on a daily basis by curtailing stupid impulses. These ‘handlers’ are normally at the forefront of every executive meeting advising the boss what he can and cannot do, and why. They then spend the bulk of their day trying to anticipate pit falls that will endanger the CEO, company, etc.
To this observer, Obama doesn’t seem to have anyone in his administration that is willing to stand up to him and check his utterances ahead of time; no one to and say “No” after reading one of his draft speeches; no one to tell him it is a stupid idea.
If you think this is a small matter – recall the ‘gifts’ he gave to the British PM and the Queen. Recount the times he bowed to foreign leaders. Let’s not forget the ‘beer summit’ and how his alligator mouth overloaded his hummingbird a$$ and made him look like a total fool (and a racist one at that).
Where were all his advisers????
You are so right, but in Obama’s case, his handlers are just as indoctrinated into the leftist Big Lie as he is. Thus, they do not always realize beforehand just how loony and obviously false his prevarications will sound to the average American, because it sounds perfectly reasonable to THEM.
#23 @Walt…”Where are all his advisors”? They FEAR him. “Harry, I have a gift”.
I’d agree if “the lie” is said to encompass more than Wright. It was the whole package:His relationship to Ayers, his failure as an executive charged with managing the Annenberg funds,his undistinguished academic career, the way he was elected to his previous offices by ruse and legerdemain against his opponents.
Thank you, Clarice, for mentioning the ONLY thing that Obama was EVER in charge of before becoming president: The Chicago Annenberg Challenge. This was/is a fund put up by the Annenberg Foundation, entrusted to IMPROVE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. The fund was for $50Million dollars, matched by another $50Million dollars — that’s 100MILLION DOLLARS entrusted to Obama before he was a state Senator.
Well, how did that turn out? Did the Chicago schools improve due to the influx of so much money?? NO!! IT WAS A BIG FAT FAILURE! Thus another non-reported reason why Obama should have never been elected president.
Mom in Wisconsin
Let’s look at the numbers: The last president to win the white vote was Lyndon Johnson. Even though Obama won the election 53% to 47% for McCain, the white vote went just the opposite, with 53% for McCain. Obama won because he carried virtually all of the black vote and a big majority of the hispanic vote. And, in 2012, assuming he runs for re-election, the only way a Republican can win is to get even more of the white vote and that may not happen unless the Republicans can find a candidate much better than McCain was.
It seems to me the big flaw with Obowma is he doesn’t think anybody heard the last lie, much less remembers it. So he tells the latest whopper of the day with impunity. No one in a connected society can make that work. Maybe in Kenya you can, but not in the USA.
Hence the need to destroy talk radio and FNC. The tapes don’t lie.
Potempkiniade Obama’s election and ensuing administration is -
Yet, unfortunately, there is also something that is called “suspension of disbelief”, and this “suspension of disbelief” which should be just a multiplex state of mind, is enveloping, STILL SO, this nation which still gives Obama a free pass for all his, obviously incompetent, if not seditions acts -
Really? Obama is failing? Because from where I sit, he seems to be doing pretty darn well under the circumstances.
I see a lot of gratuitous reference to race here – but in all honesty, Obama’s racial background had precisely nothing to do with most voters’ choice to support him. He could have been any race – that’s not what determined who earned the nomination. It was about policy – and it still is.
As far as policy, Obama seems to be doing pretty well. Democrats managed to get a pretty substantial piece of health care legislation passed, which is already improving access to care for millions. They also succeeded in preventing a massive depression with some timely economic stimulus, and rescued the US car industry. Democrats have also restored full funding to the Veterans’ Administration, taken effective action to manage the foreclosure crisis, provided some tax relief to low income earners, and fully committed to success and eventual withdrawal in Afghanistan.
In fact, there is very little that Obama can be said to have “lied” about, if anything. In comparison to the previous administration, the current one is a vision of purity and wholesomeness.
In what sense is Obama failing? None that I can see. He is experiencing the push-back that progressive reformers always face from entrenched corporate interests. Of course his popularity has dropped since inauguration. However, Obama remains one of the most popular politicians nationally, and has been doggedly pursuing his policies in spite of complaints from both the right and the left. In reality, Obama has worked hard to embody the vision of post partisan, pragmatic progressivism that he promoted as his platform. He has been met by unprecedented levels of partisan opposition and obstruction, and in spite of this he has accomplished more than most Presidents achieve in 4 years before he has been in office for 2.
If this is failure for the Democrats, then I must have missed something…
Peace.
DS
I see you are pulling the classic liberal technique of doubling down on the lies.
ObamaCare is already improving access? Where?
It hasn’t even started to go into affect yet.
MTG,
No lies here. “ObamaCare”, otherwise known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which President Obama signed on March 23, 2010, has already begun to improve access to care across the USA. Although some provisions will not go into effect for years, there are several reforms already impacting Americans’ lives:
-High Risk Pool for those previously denied coverage due to pre-existing conditions
-Dependent coverage now covers dependents to age 26
-Pre-existing condition exclusions are now outlawed for minors seeking coverage
-Copays have been eliminated on many preventive services
-Medicare expanded to cover environmental emergency victims
-Rebates to begin eliminating the “donut hole” in Medicare Part D
This is just a start, but for dependents up to age 26, retirees on Medicare Part D, and minors with pre-existing conditions, these are extremely helpful reforms. As I said, health care reform is already improving access – and the impact will become much larger over time. For many people, this is a matter of life and death.
Calling me a liar is par for the course here, so I’m not really surprised that you decided to follow Roger’s lead. But it’s pretty sad that you didn’t know about the real impact of health care reform. It actually does improve peoples’ lives, so they will be pretty upset if anybody tries to mess with it. In the meantime, I await your apology for calling me a liar (don’t worry, I’m not holding my breath).
Peace.
DS
You dont get it..WE DONT WANT YOUR GOODIES..GOT IT? We dont want your
gifts, your smiles, your promises, your lies. Take them to the ghetto
and buy votes there. We will keep our pride, and our freedom
You are a standard-issue Big Lie person.
You’re prepared with the BS talking points Dems have prepared for November. Your side will tell people over and over again that you really have helped them – even as people tell you over and over that you haven’t.
The Dems only hope in November are lies. It’s a good strategy. It got you a President and control of a nation and people you are currently destroying.
November is America’s last chance. You know it. I know it. Everyone knows it. It’s us or you and that’s all there is to it. We have no common interests as fellow countrymen beyond that.
“It’s us or you and that’s all there is to it. We have no common interests as fellow countrymen beyond that.”
You nailed it Mike. It really is that simple. Like you, I don’t want what the Davids of this country offer or want to do in this country. Period.
Last I heard there is a problem with the hisk pool assignment for pre-existing conditions…deeellaaay…something I have to worry about. You just mouth the plan not the execution, which makes you a hack just like the administration…what connection do you have to the healthcare industry besides being brain dead?
And not just delay….those administering the program in Colorado acknowledge that many of those applying can’t afford the premiums and therefore are not accepted into the program. Your tax dollars (not) at work.
The government doesn’t have any money. That’s why they keep taking ours.
David S.
Read my lips – It’s my money. It represents my efforts, ambition, and success in those endeavors. Taking it away from my me to give it to people who produce nothing to buy the strength of their votes, the right to which they have not earned, is thievery.
One day you progressive highwaymen, you ‘for the good of the majority’ wealth redistributionists, you champions, (and in your case I think denizen) of the dependent class, will put your hand in the producer’s pockets one time too many.
And it will be cut off.
The time for the cutting off process is here. We are in a fight for civilization. They’ve had their run of the candy store for decades now. If we the owners don’t fight them, the kids will impoverish and enslave everyone.
You’ve gone from doubling down on lies to doubling down on stupid.
High risk pools already existed at the state level.
26 year olds could get their own health insurance if they wanted it.
The Democrats goofed, the part that exclude pre-existing on minors won’t go into affect for several years.
Regardless, when those things kick in, they will make insurance much more expensive driving private insurers out of business, which I’m sure you would consider a good thing.
Pardon me, but who gives a bloody shi! what the latest government handout is? The fact of the matter is that in order to give out all these compassionate-sounding goodies, all dressed up as “rights,” the government has to come to your house and steal your money before it can give it to poor old sick Darlene down the street. (And in the meantime the various “stakeholders” in the con game are making out — literally — like bandits.)
That is not, I say it again, that is NOT the purpose of government. And the government is going to find out in very short order the consequences for usurping power from the people. And they will sting from the rebuke: if they’re lucky, they will only sting from our wrath.
Hey, David S., what people like you always fail to mention is that all of the benefits you listed could have been obtained WITHOUT socializing medical care in this country and for A LOT less than what this bill is going to cost us. And the major taxes haven’t even kicked in yet to pay for all of this (that’s going to do wonders for this economy). Forget about the fact that it will destroy the quality of care for everyone (you will get below average care when you get fewer doctors practicing medicine for a larger number of people on the plan) and that it will cost trillions of dollars. I guess that doesn’t mean much to a far-left liberal like you. After all, it’s not YOUR money, right? It always comes from somebody else.
Again I remind you of the scariest words in the language, ANY language:
We’re from the government and we’re here to help.
Dave,your BS has gotten considerably better since the last time i read your remarks.
November is looming,have fun polishing the railing on the way down.if you start to really panic,just keep repeating the phrase:”there are no tanks in Baghdad..there are no tanks in Baghdad…”
FG
Your health-care “reform” is scheduled to effectively take away my health insurance by 2015 by cancelling tax deduction for HSA and high-deductible (real) insurance, plus a FINE for not buying your demonic government HMO (where national socialists decide what kind of health care I get). Buying a corporate HMO, avoids the fine, but since by then all the corporations will be owned by the national socialists, will still leave me in mortal fear of going to the national socialist doctor.
Most of the people with “no access to health care” (poor, and think they can’t afford it, but with no serious preexisting conditions) have no problem getting health insurance once they realize that expensives HMOs aren’t actually insurance anyway.
It is socialist government that has pushed HMOs over insurance via taxation, and raised the cost of healthcare while taking away the freedom to make healthcare choices (without paying list price for services over and above the HMO premiums). In fact, most corporate wage slaves are already pretty much *forced* to get the corporate HMO thanks to people like you. Your “reform” just tightens the screws.
Note the way the Left parses words. For example, ‘improving access to affordable health care’ has nothing to do with whether or not that same care is actually going to be available once this destructive program has done its damage.
So, the monsters – and I do mean monsters – who trotted out this particular line can claim to never having made the promise to make it available. Then they’ll invoke the class warfare card, claiming that it’s just greedy [insert demonized group here] who are standing in the way.
The road to serfdom, indeed.
Where do you sit, in hell forced to watch MSNBC?
Bwaahaaaha…either a joke…or a exercise in self hypnotism.
Race not an issue? Race was everything. Obama was a complete
creation of endless race baiting and white surrender of their culture
and country.
From the shuffling of his Harvard application to the top of the pile
on the basis of race quotas, to his wafting upward through Harvard
on the basis of racial gamesmanship and a nice speaking voice, to his race baiting in Chicago to the mindless
promotion of “the first black President” by the mindless liberal media..
Obama went to the top..on the basis of nothing but race.. Keep lying pal…when the
knockout blow comes in November you will finding yourself flat on your back,
with your head spinning, asking..”whah..happened?!!”
In what sense is Obama failing? None that I can see.
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Therefore I speak to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
Matthew 13:13
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You should schedule an eye exam.
Or maybe a hearing exam.
Or perhaps your reading comprehension is out of whack?
David S – you live in a dream world of your own authorship. The link you provided is a sham, filled with misinformation, false information and slithering innuendo.
Just one minor example – your list says Obama promised to close Guantanamo Bay; no, he didn’t. He promised to close it within a year. Quite the difference and these cherry picked statements form the meat of your link – as well as the morass of ‘in the works promises’ which is pure bogus.
Try this:
http://obamasgaffes.blogspot.com/
Here you’ll find the truth. He’s dishonest to the core. And you are disingenous to the core.
Do you really believe that the Pork-Stimulus, which didn’t go to setting up an infrastructure of private employment but went to state public employees – stemmed off a Depression? The US economy is based on private business not massive public, taxpayer funded bureaucracies.
Do you really believe that taking over GM and the ‘cash for clunkers’ ‘saved the automotive industry? How?
Do you seriously believe that ‘setting a date’ for Afghan withdrawal is either wise – or will be upheld? Being ‘fully committed to withdrawal’ is hardly a novel statement; every war has that result.
Are you aware of the costs of health care which won’t kick in until After Obama?
Are you aware that he is violating the constitution with this act, by requiring citizens to purchase a public product?
At the moment, all that exists are words, not costs. Makes a difference though you don’t seem to understand that difference.
Are you aware that he has polarized the nation, racially and politically?
Are you aware of his failure to secure the borders and his accusations of racism and discrimination in Arizona?
Are you aware that his reaction to the oil spill is tantamount to gross negligence?
Do you approve of his denial of the reality of Islamic fascism, jihadism and terrorism? Do you approve of his transforming NASA from a scientific exploration to a social service ‘feel-good’ for Muslims?
Here’s a comprehensive list of Obama and his empty rhetoric.
http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/4701/long-post-complete-list-obama-statement-expiration-dates
Oh, and stop with the smug ‘peace’ at the end of your posts. That’s a juvenile tactic of trying to control the nature of the response to you. Grow up and allow dissent.
It’s funny what some people will characterize as a success. Let’s go through your list of the accomplishments:
1. Democrats managed to get a pretty substantial piece of health care legislation passed, which is already improving access to care for millions. [Could't possibly have improved access for ANYONE, let alone millions as the provisions for doing so have yet to be implemented.]
2. They also succeeded in preventing a massive depression with some timely economic stimulus.
[Why not also put in that he enacted policies which prevented the star Regulus from crashing into earth in 2011? It carries about the same degree of credibility. The economy is far worse off precisely due to his policies and actions.]
3.Rescued the US car industry. [ Rescued them from what- themselves and their own legendary incompetence? What he purchased with our tax dollars was a stay of execution for GM and a gift for the UAW in the form of Chrylser preferred stock. Ford got nothing from the Gov't and isn't it interesting how they're faring far better than either GM or Chrysler?]
4. Democrats have also restored full funding to the Veterans’ Administration. [That one I'll leave alone]
5. Taken effective action to manage the foreclosure crisis. [What action would that be? Could you mean setting up another program that uses taxpayer dollars to subsidize refinancing deals in a vain attempt to keep people in houses they could not afford in the first place? Bet you didn't know the track record to date of that program. The default rate has not improved at all; in fact, those that were underwater in 2008 with mortgages they couldn't afford ended up walking away despite the money thrown at them. But let's not quibble on the details. The real crime is that the origins of the housing market bubble and collapse can be attributed to Fannie-Mae/Feddie Mac underwriting (again with taxpayer's dollars) an orgy of profligate speculation in mortgage back securities.]
6. Provided some tax relief to low income earners. [Check - no disagreement there]
7. Fully committed to success and eventual withdrawal in Afghanistan. [That's an interesting combination of objectives. Doesn't that seem the least bit strange to you - to commit to a hard deadline for a complete pull out of combat troops before you do anything else to assure victory? Yep, that's how one assures success in war - tell your enemy the exact date you'll be withdrawing]
8. He is experiencing the push-back that progressive reformers always face from entrenched corporate interests. [Which entrenched corporate interests are you referring to? Maybe the ones that donated more to his campaign than his opponent? Could it be the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries? Nope, they love the guy and are spending their "corporate affairs" and PR money supporting Dem candidates.]
9. Obama remains one of the most popular politicians nationally. [You mean compared to Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, Harry Reid or just both houses of congress? I'm not so sure that's a beauty contest worth winning]
10. Obama has worked hard to embody the vision of post partisan, pragmatic progressivism that he promoted as his platform. [I will grant that he has probably worked hard to "embody his vision of post partisan, pragmatic progressivism." Now the question is how can we make him stop before there's nothing left in this country to build on?]
There was no relief to low income tax payers. They just fiddled with the witholding tables a little. At the end of the year, these taxpayers still owed the same amount, they just had less taken out during the year, so they owed more at the end of the year.
” In what sense is Obama failing? None that I can see. ”
Have you been swimming? Has oil gotten in your eyes?
“entrenched corporate interests”
DingDingDingDingDingDing! There it is!
I trust the “entrenched corporate interests” far more than I trust do-gooder government, David. If I don’t like a corporation’s business practices, I can vote with my dollars and do business elsewhere. Not so with government.
To that end…
… anyone know where I can get a used Ford pickup with manual tranny and decent miles?
David, I’m not sure what the “S” stands for, but I’ve got some ideas. If you’re so excited about the future goodies promised in ObamaCare, then I’m sure you’re really ga-ga over the system in Massachusetts upon which Obamacare is based and Obama himself has claimed as “essentiall identical”. Oh, you say you don’t know what I’m talking about. Well then, why don’t you google “Massachusetts” and “healthcare” and you’ll get a wealth of information on how “well” it’s doing. I especially like the one from the July 7, 2010 Wall Street Journal entitled “The Massachusetts Health-Care Train Wreck”.
You see, before I accept anything as gospel I like to take it slow, do a little research, look at the track record, look at the experience factor and try not to get stuck with a load of crap. But, that’s just me. You’re welcome to continue in life blissfully careening along, distracted by the next shiny object that attracts your short attention span. Good luck with that…
“In fact, there is very little that Obama can be said to have “lied” about, if anything.”
Except for who he is. He claimed (or his handlers did) to be a centrist. He is no centrist. He claimed, as it has been pointed out here, that he was unaware of the Rev Wright’s radicalism. That’s literally impossible or he’s lied about going to that church for 20 years. He claims to love this country, I seriously doubt it.
But it isn’t even his outright lies or his lies of omission that’s bothering most of his detractors and many of his election-time supporters, it’s the balls to wall Federalizing of American society.
To say “he” saved GM and Chrysler when he clearly circumvented bankruptcy laws – who’s to say they wouldn’t have succeeded with loan guarantees and the normal course of bankruptcy. To claim “he” prevented a depression is aggrandizing something that can’t be known in this time-line. Did TARP save the banks and the economy from total collapse? Maybe, maybe not, how would we ever know?
The measure of his failure will come in Nov.
A calm, rational voice, with the facts.
Hear, hear!
In Ed’s world, lies are facts and facts are lies.
There’s a blanket solution for all this liberal malfeseance: Quit voting for Democrats
I have an entirely different take on Obama: I think he’s a dope.
Jarvis.
Being a dope & being a liar are not mutually exclusive. I would agree that Obama is intellectually shallow. But he’s still a liar.
Nonetheless, we shouldn’t forget that Obama is just the tip of the iceberg, there are plenty more ideologic clones around.
We can’t reason someone out of a position they didn’t get to through reason.
When the only response Obama and his team have for their failures is to posit that “things would be a whole lot worse without us,” then you know you really have a problem.
Mr Besig.
This is off the subject, referring to a different article (my excuses to everyone), but what on Earth made you think that I believe peace with the Palestinians is in any way possible? I most certainly take nothing for granted, I was questioning the strategy of our PM which, truthfully, I cannot fathom, I can’t even accept the idea that he is merely stalling for time until the Liar-in-Chief loses control of Congress (much to the relief of most Americans).
Terry, Ken is not interested in responding to our posts. That’s clear. I feel sorry for Ken.
Roger,
Thanks you so much for putting it into words and saying it. We need to identify this thing happening to us now with as much clarity and force as possible. The very life of our nation rests on whether or not we do.
I have been saying for months that Obama is the “God Damn America” President; that he hates the country and the people he is President of; that you cannot drink in the whole culture and milieu of even being in the Rev. Wright world for your entire adult lifetime and not believe Wright’s world is the true world, the real one.
I have said this to a few Democrat friends, that Obama hates America and Americans and they shake their heads and say they ‘just can’t believe that’ – but in a way where you know that is what they think too.
The hypothesis that he is the “God Damn America” President is simply the best way to explain what has happened to this country, presently but more importantly to its future. Obama has sought to kill America, not wound it. A two year recession will not get the job done. He’s passed laws and subverted the Constitution in the hope of destroying the future too.
It’s him (the person and the liberal political philosophy) or us. That’s all. Everything else is a side-issue that gets in the way of that salient fact. Novemeber is probably our last chance.
Folks – I believe that in many ways we are missing the point here. Obama’s failure (and the nation’s failure for electing him) is only peripherally related to Obama’s politics. The core issue here is that Obama is not qualified for the job. He has the thinnest resume and smallest skill set of any modern president. He has literally never led any organization of any size ever. He is the weakest leader to ever be elected president by such a wide margin that it doesn’t make sense to even try to analyze who the second weakest was. Obama is in a league of his own. Carter was a world class statesman compared to Obama.
The “big lie” related to Obama was not his politics. Anyone who looked could see those before the end of the primaries. The Big lie is Obama’s competency. He has never run anything, his degrees are soft (and to date no one has come forward who remembers Obama either as a student or a teacher – he seems to have been a ghost at every institution he attended), we have no Obama writings to review other than he two books (likely ghost written), his academic records are sealed, no tests scores, no IQ score – nothing.
We will survive Obama. We may not survive the mindset that elected a grossly unqualified “symbol” with no consideration of whether he was actually qualified for the job.
GDT,
You are wildly wrong.
Competence is always secondary to principles. Obama has the wrong principles. If he was more comeptent, things would be even worse.
An incometent conservative would be 1000 times better than an incompetent Obama, and one million times better than a cometent one.
Like most people for the last 30-40 years, your basic education has huge holes in it. You are deficient in logic, and basic understandings of ‘what’s what’.
Perhaps I was not clear. The key point from my post however is not which is worse (radical leftism – or gross incompetence). The point is which was more grossly misrepresented. Obama’s ideology is not a mystery. No reasonable person who researched even superficially could be surprised by what Obama stands for. The “lie” was the “most qualified candidate in a generation” line.
We will survive “leftist” Obama. That is what the checks and balances and elections are for. I am more consigned about the “bull in a china shop – spoiled child – self destructive” Obama and the mindset that elected him.
BTW – I believe that an unqualified conservative would be worse. He (like Obama) would be unable to actually execute what he believes and we would not be in as strong a position to do anything about it. We will have to disagree on this point my friend. “Belief” without the skill set to implement is irrelevant.
Obama the unqualified narcissist with a god complex is far more dangerous than Obama the leftist. We have survived leftists before. The US has never before has a child king.
Actually the operative word here is “We”..as in “We will survive leftism”.
Obama is in the process of changing the demographics of the country.
Replacing he white middle class with 30 million Mexicans with 4th grade
educations who will vote for the Welfare State every time. Its a
tried and true tactic of the Far Left..from Juan Perons destruction
of Argentina, to Mugabes destruction of Rhodesia to the ANCs destruction
of South Africa. Change the voting demographics is the easiest and most
devasting way to change a country permanently. And after all that is what
Obama promised…”to fundamentally change the United States”.
” The core issue here is that Obama is not qualified for the job. ”
You assume that his job is to be a good President and safeguard the country and citizenry. Try assuming his job is to strengthen a foreign government, bankrupt the country in order to drive stock prices down , put Americas greatest assets on sale so that they can be purchased for a song, increase the price of foreign oil by disrupting national production, subvert the constitution by increasing government power and its intrusion into the lives of the citizenry and, last but not least, increase the number of foreign residents so that Americas traditional values become foreign at home. By any means necessary. If those are correct asessments then BHO is the perfect man for the job and he is doing his job perfectly.
Whether or not President Obama has cajoled a coalition of
As a bible-believing Christian man I researched Zionism and found it to be free of flaws, so I wish you would explain where you think there are any. Thank you.
I heard the current occupant of the Oval Office speak in the spring of the presidential campaign (I stood outside the overflowing hall and listened with worshipful followers to the loudspeakers). Took notes. Reported to my.family and friends that his thin speech consisted of pasted together platitudes designed to trigger revenge and despair. He also pulled that “somebody in the front row fainted, get her some water” phoney trick that he used a number of times before the media even noticed. My family and many friends ridiculed me as a cruel racist backwards unenlightened fossil. I said, just LISTEN to him. LISTEN and THINK about it. That ruse with the water tells just about all we need to know: The man is a huckster and a pathological liar.The American public has been suckered. People get suckered because they are too naïve and trusting or — more likely — they think they can get something for nothing.
Okay, great! We know Obama would lie on an Rorschach test; we understand that he must have a personality disorder; we know he is a racist; we know he is a committed socialist/totalitarian; we know the MSM selected and then elected him on the basis of his race (white guilt); we know he has corrupted and racialized the DOJ and most of the federal government; we know he and the Dems do not believe in the Constitution…
By a show of hands, who thinks the next election will bring about a change? Do you really think the Dems will give up their power because of election results; results that can be tainted and recounted until the correct result is found???
Even if we get back a majority of the House and move closer to parity in the Senate what can be done when Obama still has the MSM behind him?
The One has two more years to plot his strategy and if he and the MSM think he may go down, do you think they will let that happen? He has the blacks. Look at what is going on in Oakland, CA; now imagine that Obama tells his black constituents that the white man is cheating him and his presidency, what do you think will happen???
So let’s start thinking about what we need to do to wrest power from this Freudian nightmare.
You have identified the problem. But, the Demagogic Party owns ALL the Union money, ALL the Bolshevik street soldiers, ALL so-called “minorities”, ALL the gummint employees, ALL the dinosaur media including Hollywood and the BBC, $787 Billion in “stimulus” money and now $20 Billion in BP money, both to use as walking around ward heeler dough — and they’ve got a Bolshi-activist DOJ with all the guns in the world — and they’re capable of committing any atrocity, scapegoating any group, to hold power.
And you think they can’t keep power forever?
No one can keep power forever. The weight of their own self-indulgence will bring them down eventually, if nothing else brings them down sooner.
Assuming that every eligible black voter voted for a single candidate, e.g. Obama, black citizens, in total, are still a significantly numerical minority in the nation. HOW THEN can “black voters” elect a president or anyone else, if other voters of whatever ethnicity (NOT ?AMERICAN? )do not vote for that / those same candidates? Doesn’t that puzzle anyone else?
Roger you have a pulse for what people are intersted in by the number of responses to your posts. I have some information you once asked for about Che in Bolivia. It maybe small but it would help many people know who found him hiding in Bolivia.
One the major keys to Obama’s victory was the race guilt: Obama was to be the post-modern “Jesus” whose election would redeem “racist America” for its “400 years of oppression of people of color”. In modern multiculti America, to be called a racist is equivalent to being called a witch or heretic in the middle ages. While McCain conducted an awful campaign, it was clear the MSM were looking to paint him as a right wing neo-Bush racist. Remember when he referred to Obama as “that one” during a debate? The MSM were all over that as some sort of racist code word.
The narrative in 2008 was basically a false dichotomy:
1. a vote for Obama meant you were an enlightened multicultural, metrosexual new American willing to shed his country’s racist past and (if you were white) atone for your sins of racism and historic oppression of the black man.
2. a vote for McCain meant you were a racist white out of touch with the reality of a new America.
In short, you could make history and be saved from your racism in 11/08, or you could be a racist. This narrative was much stronger than any words of caution about Obama
I think you have it half correct Roger. The Wright affair and as you correctly state the MSM cover-up was the beginning. Many people I talked to when confronted with “he sat there for 20 years and listened to Wright and claims to have never heard anything intolerable” basically did as you said and shrugged, pointed to his race speech as “even if he did, he just cut the Reverand loose.”
But I also think there is two missing pieces. Axlerod, Gibbs, etc., all oversold him to the public thru speeches. The non-stop 24/7 Obama-thon since his election have turned off many people. Prime-time Presidential address this, interview that, college hoop picks, etc., he doesn’t have the bully pulpit anymore because he’s treated it as just another prop. His oil spill speech from the Oval Office, 50+ days after the spill had even Matthews & Olberman bashing him. For him, it was just another prop to help promote his “brand.”
The second piece is that he has not led or has not been seen as leading. He allowed Pelosi/Reid to write the stimulus, healthcare, cap-n-tax, financial reg reform, etc. And this, I think, is seen as just as much of an indictment of his lack of leadership characteristics. If rebublicans were control of congress, and he’d have to let them “write” legislation, he could at least be seen as helping to craft laws at worst thru veto threats. Giving Pelosi/Reid basically free reign to do as they please, he’s seen as riding not driving. I think that is what’s driving the electorate right now. The sense that they voted for Obama as president but it’s Pelosi/Reid ticket, only just not occupying the WH.
I think this severly hurts his brand and destroys his “leadership” tag. He had an opportunity to write the script for anyone suggesting he had no leadership skills or positions before running. His greatest response until being elected was that he had ran his campaign and for awhile, since it was very good and had won, people gave him the benefit of the doubt since they had nothing else to compare it to. Once he signed off letting Pelosi/Reid craft legislation, particularly health-care, he will always be seen as trying to catch up to the narrative that he is a leader. It’s a race he’s bound to lost as long as there is a dem majority. His only hope is to have the repubs take control and thereby force him to take positions (which will ultimately be Pelosi/Reid position, but he’s got the veto).
Whenever the opportunity presented itself to vote present, he has. Taking a stand against raising taxes from 15% to only 10% isn’t really a stand and navigating his way thru Chicago politics is less working with people and more not offending large swaths of people since it’s all group think. He’s been able to sit back and let congress get the rap for a “liberal agenda.” If the repubs take the House, he will be the one to articulate that arguement. Can he do it? I have my doubts.
So it’s ok to sit there an listen to a racist for twenty years, so long as when the racist becomes politically inconvenient, you cut him loose?????
Reminds me of some friends of mine who supported Clinton back in ’92. They declared that it didn’t matter if Clinton was a liar and a scoundrel, they backed him because of his policies.
I had a great time reminding them of their statements as Clinton spent the next few years rapidly abandoning all of these programs.
Oh, I agree. I think so many people bought his shtick cliche’ filled race speech, they convinced themselves that “well, maybe he didn’t hear anything about whitey or jews from the Rev. And now that it has been brought to his attention, he’s cut him loose.”
It was just another way for them to irrationally buy into his arguement that he hadn’t heard anything. They were so gung ho to vote for him, they could always say that he repudiated the Rev. Same as Clinton you site and the 60 minutes “I’ve caused pain in my marriage” interview. He’s overexposed, and when he says “we’re headed in the right direction” people just roll their eyes because even he has to know that ~60% believe otherwise. He’s out there too much talking about beer summits, solar/wind energy, AZ law and everything else under the sun, he’s managed to dilute the bully pulpit to a prop to where people don’t even tune into his speeches anymore. That was his greatest gift and if he’s lost that, what else does he have?
Repeating my main point:
It’s him or us. That’s all. Everything else is a side-issue. Novemeber is probably our last chance.
“Widely desirous of electing its first black president — I felt this myself but did not act upon it — the nation gulped and swallowed the lie…”
As I wrote before the election: The cheapest indulgence and the greatest self-indulgence. Many colleagues in academe rejected the reference to the pre-Reformation Church, but the vehemence of their assurances to the contrary brought to mind a certain quote from Shakespeare.
Roger,
Just before the 08 presidential election a 76 year-old practicing lawyer of my aquaintance said to me that Obama was too smart for me to understand, so that I just had to admire him (Obama, that is)and believe in him. I told him that indeed Obama was too smart for him to understand, but that I had already figured him out for myself. My lawyer aquaintance actually then said, “If you vote Republican you’ll just get a sea of trouble.” In that the prophet of that moment was correct.
I’m going to crib from my own blog post today:
But suppose for a moment that Barack Obama is really a performance artist, someone like the late Andy Kaufman, or Sascha Baron Cohen playing one of his characters like “Borat” or “Bruno.” He’s been building up this “Barack Obama” character for years, since he was in college. The reason his transcripts were never allowed to be scrutinized is that they would have shown that he was studying acting and associated skills. He’s taken on this “Barack Obama” character like Sascha Baron Cohen did Borat when he was publicizing his film, and he never comes out of character. He plays it straight, just exactly as he would if he were a real politician, but his real motivation has been to see just exactly how many people he can fool and how many he can offend by screwing things up, again, just like a Sascha Baron Cohen character. He’s someone who literally took in anti-Americanism with his mother’s milk (she was an expatriate who didn’t like America or its people). He doesn’t like capitalism, or business (large or small), or the bourgeois people of America (especially those living in states that didn’t vote for him). He got 53% of Americans to vote for him in November 2008, but in the ensuing year and a half, he’s been doing all kinds of things to piss off more and more people, and he’s done it deliberately. As Alfred the butler told Batman in The Dark Knight, “Some people just want to watch the world burn.”
Because, you see, a performance artist doesn’t care about whether he’s liked or not. It’s all about the performance. Kaufman and Cohen had characters that many people despised, but they were successful for all that. And this “Barack Obama” character seems to be the most successful of them all. He’s partying all the time, out on the golf links, rubbing shoulders with the glitterati, vacationing hither and yon (in Maine this week, his third vacation since the oil disaster began on April 20th). He’s Living The Life. It’s good to be the President. And he knows that no matter how bad things get in the country, when he leaves office, he’ll do so with a big pension and a Secret Service detail. Even screwups like Jimmy Carter get that.
Sure, it sounds like a crazy conspiracy theory. But ask yourself: If Barack Obama really was a performance artist playing a role, deliberately trying to destroy the country as part of the greatest prank of all time, what exactly would he be doing differently from what he’s done over the past eighteen months?
Obama may be joking..but those watching the performance, Putin, Bin Laden,
Amadinejad, Chavez, Hezbollah, Dear Leader..are most emphatically NOT joking.
Obama doesnt have to mean anything…he just has to do nothing and give
opportunity to the unfunny parts of the world to take hold of History
and turn it permanently in the direction they want it to go. American
blood and tears come later.
ehunter, I apologize in advance for the double posting of this info but i thought you would find it of particular interest based on our previous discussion regarding media companies. MBY
http://www.themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=29358
“My own view is that the backroom gang, who are radical socialists, who run Obama, use him as the slick upfront salesman.”
The absolute truth!
Excellent post, Clyde
Agree with Jarvis (#20): Obama is a dope. A BIG dope. But he had lots of enablers, and just enough smarts (of a certain kind), to get him to where he is today. He would be laughable if he weren’t so dangerous and destructive.
Obama is a pathological narcissist; this is a serious malady. It means that he has detached himself from direct interaction with reality – with real events, with real people, and moved himself into a Virtual Reality which he fully controls.
A narcissist must control all interactions with him, to ensure that he is dominant. That’s why Obama, politically, is in the socialist camp, because it sets up a two class society: the elite Rulers and the Ruled.
I don’t think that Obama is himself an intellectual socialist; that is, he doesn’t believe that socialism will better the lives of people. He’s a psychological socialist; he psychologically needs socialism because it removes the power of the people, denigrates individualism, crushes private actions – and puts all power in the hands of that elite state.
Obama is not an intellectual; his lacks curiosity, he is intellectually shallow and ignorant of history, economics, theory and has no desire to explore these areas. His aloofness is not due to ‘being cerebral’ – for he is not; it’s due to a narcissist lack of empathy for anyone whom he cannot control.
Obama cannot handle any situation where he feels that he doesn’t control other people. His reaction to dissent, questions, criticism is immediate and angry. He’ll accuse you of ‘not understanding’, ie. you are the problem because you lack intelligence to understand Him.
He’ll accuse you of bias; political bias, religious, racial. Again, the fault in not accepting His ideas lies in you. Not him.
Eventually, you will no longer exist for him. For Obama, anything and anyone that he cannot control, simply ceases to exist. That includes the Oil Spill, the democratic demonstrators in Iran, even the Iranian nuclear weapons – as well as Islamic terrorism.
He’s a pathological liar because of that deep disconnection with reality. The real world, for Obama, simply cannot get in contact with Obama. He refuses to acknowledge it because he cannot enter into a direct relation with anyone or anything. He has to control all interactions.
Therefore, for Obama, what matters is his Virtual World where what he says..is what exists. And his agenda is to manipulate you, to put you within his control..and he’ll say and do anything to achieve that.
My own view is that the backroom gang, who are radical socialists, who run Obama, use him as the slick upfront salesman. Obama didn’t run on his own record in 2008; indeed, his records have been kept hidden. Furthermore what we know of him shows us that he has no accomplishments. None. No legal papers written, no bills and policies in Senate. Just talk – which can change from day to day. Like all manipulative sociopaths, Obama can talk and manipulate words into whatever he wants you to feel. Obama ran on the future and on a rejection of war and strife..to a nation tired of both.
Such a campaign is pure gold for a pathological liar, an emotional manipulator such as Obama. He can smile and laugh..and talk about nothing, for the future is always amorphous and rests only in your own imagination.
And, a man who requires control over others, will always have the Evil Other, used as a diversion to group people into a criticism, not of him…but of that Evil Other. Bush filled that role for Obama, who readily diverted all questions to that area.
Race? He – and his wife – are both anti-white and anti-American. Obama uses race as a basic tool of control. Criticize him – and you are a racist. It’s as simple as that. He’s suing Arizona to divert from criticism of his failure to secure the border and above all, to get the hispanic vote.
My own view about the 2010 campaign is that the Obama Gang can’t run on ‘Yes We Did’..a version of the 2006 ‘Yes We Can’. His policies and actions are too readily shown as disastrous. Instead, he’s running on a version of the 2006. Blame Bush and Race.
So he’s diverting criticism of HIM – to Congress. He, Obama, is a victim of Bush and the GOP. He had to do what he did because the apocalypse would have resulted (apocalyptic scenarios are also a tactic of Obama).
So – if you are angry at him now, you are the ignorant one in not realizing that all he did, hapless victim that he is, was due to Bush and the GOP.
And, there’s race. Obama polarizes people; that’s a control tactic. The country is now as racially polarized as it was during the 60′s and even the Civil War. Obama has set up a White House that is filled with hostility to whites. The 2010 campaign will use race as a key element.
People are waking up and realizing that this is a very malignant individual. But his Rasmussen polls remain stable; negative but stable. The focus in 2010 has to be, I think, on Congress. Not so much on Obama who will slither out of all accountability; don’t ignore his deep manipulative tactics and his vicious need to control people and make them feel that they are the problem – not him. The focus has to be on Congress.
Something very bad is afoot and for all the reasons you’ve enumerated here. People don’t want to see it, don’t want to believe it, and don’t want to even acknowledge that it exists. What exactly is it that we’re talking about? It’s the rise of those who crave absolute power for no other reason save that of wielding it. It is a drug, an addiction, a geas, an appetite that we can scarcely comprehend. They are monsters, all of them. And virtually no one wants to even admit the possibility their existence, their intentions and the horror that they will without a doubt perpetrate.
They will be quite content to live in a world lit only by fire, ruling from atop a stinking pile of rubble and corpses as long as they think that THEY will be the ones doing so. Millions of us dead. The rest of us in chains. That’s their goal, their vision, their unholy cause. Some of them have said as much.
There will be only one way to stop them.
It’s inevitable…the cycle of the human condition. We live in interesting times
I agree with your analysis, but might add about Rasmussen. It’s my belief, as you cite Obama’s “you’re a racist if you don’t agree with me” and the polarization that his poll numbers are actually less. Suppose you get a blind call, one of the questions is “do you like Obama personally?” How many people are going to say no and risk that racists backlash? Could be Rasmussen on the other end. Could be someone else. And if you answer no, is it because of healthcare? deficits? foreign policy? he’s black? cap-n-tax? DADT? Suing AZ? he’s black? golfs too much? talks too much? lost site on BP? he’s black?
I just don’t think people want to go thru the hassle. Assume continuous polls and 9 out of 10 black support the president and make up 10% of the population. He polls 48-52 approve/disapprove. Remove 10 (10%) blacks and you get 39-51. That’s far below the 43-46 he’s been hovering around. Subtract 2 or 3 points because they don’t want the hassle of being labeled a racist and you’re at 37-51. His negative polling is what will really hurt the Dems in November. Blacks aren’t going to show up and due to minority/majority redistricting, Dems in battleground districts have even less blacks to get to the polls.
The Mainstream Media is responsible for this disastrous presidency; but, alas, will never be held accountable for it. Shrinking ratings will hurt the media, but its corruption is so deep and profound that only full eradication will suffice to allow honest elections.
Insatty,
That’s an excuse. Was Pravda to blame for Russian Commnism?
69m “Americans” voted for this guy. No one forced them. The 60m or so who did not vote for him are proof that they could have seen this guy for what he was despite the MSM. Many, many of them did – and they voted for him anyway. You want to know the depth of our problems it is right there.
The others who voted for him withoiut knowing? They are also not only our major problem, but the world’s and civilization’s problem.
It’s Novemeber or never. This is the most do-or-die election in American history. It’s them or us and no middle ground. They will never stop until they achieve total victory unless we stop them in their tracks and we have one chance left – and we already know that the majority of voters will vote for him if they want to. We have 3 months to change 20m minds. A big job.
Sir, you were too easy on Bill Clinton. While his lie about the Lewinsky relationship may have been peripheral, there was ample evidence that we had a criminal in the white house–a serial rapist. He was never prosecuted, was he? And many of us still have questions about the convenient demise of Ron Brown, and Vince Foster’s death.
It has always puzzled me why so many reasonaably astute commentators are willing to give slack, excuses, for both the Clintons. WJ did not just lie about Monica Lewinsky, “that woman”, but was a serial liar throughout his entire public life: in Oxford during the Vietnam War, as governor of Arkansas droit de seigneur using civil servants as “pimps” (Paula Jones et al), and of course Gennifer Flowers et al. But of course this was ONLY SEX. By a Democrat despite laws against sexual harassment used to pillory an upright man Clarence Thomas,and ruined lives of mere mortals. AND to the “Impeachment” Committee of the House of Congress,which declined to evaluate the question of his perjury — which I always believed to be a criminal offense of import, in a “country of Law not of men” in which country “no man is above the law”. Seems in this Clinton “impeachment” with the full collusion of the Congress I was wrong. And then of course there’s Hillary: Whitewater, and her as yet unresolved (unexamined?) behaviours in reviewing – culling? police files after the discovery of Vincent Foster’s body. Where did she get the right to review those files. She was merely the wife of the President, holding no official office. As follow-up, this ardent “feminist” presumably desirous of accomplishment in her own right without the coattails of a spouse, she, although NEVER having held elected office became Senator for New York, the capitol of the “Blue States”. An almost exact duplication of Robert Kennedy’s behaviours. ALL “DEMOCRATS”, representing the People of the US. You could not make it up. And yet, astute commentators make little of these developments.
This provocative essays has sparked an illuminating discussion, and highlights the strange ability of a charming, handsome Senator to play the role of savior for millions of Americans based … ah, that’s the awkward question. Simon nails the odd willingness of millions to buy a rather implausible account of Obama’s ignorance of Wright’s radical politics. Where is the healthy scepticism one would expect from seasoned journalists and leading editors?
President Obama, in much too praised Cairo address, argued “we must say in public what we say in private.” It’s a great line, and a fundamental assumption of our democratic system. It’s fair, therefore, to apply that standard – articulated by Obama himself – to his own election campaign.
Let me point to two earlier indications that both raise profound questions about both Obama’s honesty and the mainstream media’s eagerness to cover for the inexperienced, first-term Senator without any legislative accomplishments.
1. Senator Obama campaigned in Ohio against NAFTA, yet sent a secret message to the foreign minister of Canada that he had no intention of modifying NAFTA. When a too-candid foreign ministry staff member revealed the message, the mainstream media noted – and soon forget this astonishing act of blatant dishonesty. A reasonable conclusion would have been that Obama had revealed himself to be a demagogue who believes that deception is key to his success and governing style. Instead, we heard numerous stories about a “refreshing” and “different” candidate Obama committed to good government. How did journalists reach that conclusion????
2. Senator Obama’s campaign staff somehow cajoled mainstream editors and journalists to censor the mention of his middle name of Hussein. Given the history of Americans electing Franklin Delano Roosevelt and John Fritzgerald Kennedy, this agreement to censor Obama’s middle name reflects an astonishing deference to an insecure candidate’s demands to control editorial content. The condescending attitude toward the public also illuminates a stunning elitism about the need to control what the voting public knows – and needs to know. Naturally, the protected candidate won the election and proudly gave his full legal name Barack Hussein Obama when taking the Presidential oath.
May I suggest that this same pattern of giving Obama the full benefit of every doubt – and often censoring valid reasons for scepticism – has continued since inauguration? The predictable result, common to many countries where governments make great promises and deliver few goods, has been growing scepticism toward the mainstream media.
This administration, elected on fashionable fairy tales and dubious claims, continues its campaign style of public deception with the assistance of too many journalists. It’s time for the press to hold Obama to his own Cairo standards.
There is an old trial lawyer aphorism, which is probably relevant here, to wit: people will usually believe whatever they are told so long as it is credible but if they find out the person is lying then they won’t beleve anything that person says. I think that is where the public is now.
Some humorous cartoons on Obama’s lack of truthfulness at http://drawfortruth.wordpress.com/category/truthfulness/
The newest one is the “iLied” version of the ipod. If you haven’t seen this yet . . . it may make you laugh (or cry when you think he is now President).
Humorous cartoon titled “Transparency” that combines both President Obama and Rev. Wright at http://drawfortruth.wordpress.com/2010/07/08/thin-skinned/ It takes a couple seconds to see Wright, but I think it’s worth a view.
Just in case you need a refresher on how Obamacare what passed . . .
Check out this cartoon titled “Congressional Abuse” at http://drawfortruth.wordpress.com/2010/03/26/congressional-abuse/
Or this one “When No Means Yes” at http://drawfortruth.wordpress.com/2010/03/19/when-no-means-yes/
How can it be that the most powerful nation on earth is so poorly run?
Consider this, just in.
Iran is just about to launch one of its biggest attacks against us. An Iranian who is on our payroll publicly detailed this recently.
Yet most of us are unaware of it.
http://jewishdailyreport.wordpress.com/2010/07/11/iran-plans-massive-attack-on-israel-america-and-uae-says-spy/
http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2010/ss_israel0641_07_12.asp
We elected a guy who can’t fix anything, but pretends to. The oil well gusher is a perfect example. I’ve fixed many types of leaks and know to act quickly and what tools will be needed- this comes from experience. I’m sure many here have done the same with ‘gushers’ of their own: harddrive fails, air conditioning fails, customer upset over some misunderstanding, etc. How well you handle the situation is the result of character and experience.
This President has neither. It’s never been expected of him to be able ‘fix’ something, so he fakes it, goes to the toolbox (these aren’t Craftsman, I guarantee) and begins to wreck whatever he lays his hands on because he lacks traits necessary to do the job, period. In addition, his choice of ‘tools’ speaks for itself- Van Jones, Emmanuel, etc.
Sadly, he’ll never gain the experience necessary to do the job of President right because he came to it ill-equipped and poorly trained as an American.
It’d be no different than sending a new-hire to do a plumbing job when all you had to go on were his claims of experience. Something’s gonna get broken and somebody will have to fix the mess he creates. We can only hope the damages aren’t that great or that the insurance will cover the damages.
what do you mean? He can shoot the ‘three’.
Basketball expression. It means the gangsta-in-chief can make a 3-point shot.
Thanks for one of the best columns I have read in weeks! Right to the point! I have thought this all along but haven’t always seen in explained in such clear terms. And too, the comments are great, too. I felt from the start of the campaign, once I looked into Obama, his life, his friends, his church, that we were in for a bad, bad ride. And how we are going to undo all of this is going to be huge if not impossible. Heard the other day from a friend who knows a prominent Republican Senator who said that the opinion was if we couldn’t stop this by 2012, we might never be able to halt the rush towards socialism and government control. A lot is going to depend on the next two elections.
“Everything” depends on the election this November. This one is for the whole ball of wax. This one is the battle for civilization that, if lost, means the war is unwinnable.
There is no 2012 worth being concerned about unless 2010 goes heavily Republican – at least enough to stop his agenda.
“If” that happens, then we can plan to reverse and repudiate this tyrant’s policies after 2012.
This November is the Spartans at Thermopylae. If they don’t hold, Greece loses and there is not another day to fight.
It is impossible to overestate the importance of this election and I don’t things are looking at all certain about who will win it.
Obama received the benefit of the racism of “Soft Standards”. What white candidate could have survived association with an out and out racist like Wright? Buddying up with a failed 60′s revolutionary like Ayers. And political corruption a la Blago or Resko? McCain and the media seemed bound and determined to take the “high road”; to not challenge him on his scandals and failings, only because he was black. Thus they have saddled the country with a psychopath. Now the law of averages says we would eventually elect a nut job, however this one is particularly dangerous because the majority party – for some reason – has put their fringe elements (see Pelosi and Reid) in charge. Probably because these are their longest serving members, not realizing that long serving members are often elected from fringe constituencies – especially in the Democratic party.
It has been my opinion for a long time that ANY long serving member of Congress comes to live inside a MSM “bubble”. That they become separated from reality as it actually is, and come to see the reality as presented by the media as “real”. Instead of challenging Obama, McCain – as a inside the Beltway type – saw challenging him on any grounds other then a strict rehash of the “issues” as “wrong”. While the media was having a field day personally attacking his own running mate, McCain never mentioned Obama’s background, associates, voting record, or beliefs. He disarmed himself, throwing away potent ammunition.
McCain constantly allowed Obama to simply discard associates – “throwing them under the bus” became a catchphrase – every time he was caught in still another untruth or embarrassment. McCain ran a campaign designed to make him look good in the morning papers, not get him elected – and he never understood the difference.
One other thing. Most people have been loyally waiting for the November election, where – as is the American Way – we’ll get to “vote the bums out”. I don’t think the American people will accept anymore “tomfoolery” with the election process. No more “surprise”, “suddenly found”, questionable ballots. Everybody with two working brain cells expects the Democrats to lose – big. I’m not sure the country will accept any other outcome. That worries me, because the Dems have become arrogant to the point of insanity.
You raise a point, about how Obama and his crowd could actually go about refusing to accept the results of an election. For a close election, like the one in 2000, the playbook is obvious — just never give in and admit you lost the election, no matter what. If necessary go abroad and set up some sort of “government in exile” in a friendly foreign country, continuing to claim the election went your way. We were in fact very lucky that Gore did (after a few months) admit his defeat in 2000 and not go down some version of the “government in exile” route But if a presidential election is not that close — that is, if both the election and the polls taken immediately before it show that you did not get enough votes to win — then the “never admit you lost” tactic will not work. So if you as a presidential candidate are serious about throwing a presidential election your way then you should set up friendly pollsters ahead of time who will, no matter what the polling results actually are, claim that you are ahead just before the voting occurs. Then after the election you can claim the polls saying you would lose were biased against you — racist, if you will — as well as, of course, the people who actually counted the votes. At that point you would have a plausible case for never accepting the election results. That’s why I worry about the presence of big money (like Soros) working on Obama’s behalf, because with those sort of resources you could indeed set up several “trojan-horse” polling companies, putting them into position for the 2012 election. The best way to do this would be to start now, setting up the new pollsters to call the 2010 election, making sure they do an accurate job in 2010 so that they would have some credibility to do an inaccurate job in 2012. If a presidential candidate really wanted to do a decent job of sabotaging a presidential election which is not really close, I do not see how to do it without trojan-horse pollsters. So if anyone is seriously worried about this sort of sabotage, I would keep an eye out for well-financed, leftist polling organizations that seem to “come out of nowhere” …
Race had everything to do with it. White people, especially the liberal white establishment, felt the time was now to give a black man an opportunity to hold the most powerful office in the world, regardless of his razor-thin resume. The collective white guilt from 100 years of slavery perpetuated by their forefathers led them to vote for this charlatan. And, women, especially young white women (like one who worked for me at the time), voted for him because he was much younger than McCain and because it was kool to be voting for someone who was so hip and with it compared to the seemingly geriatric McCain. Forget that McCain was the decorated Navy fighter pilot and genuine war hero/severely tortured POW with years of legislative experience and leadership/management credentials, and Obama was a newly-elected US senator who spent the majority of his senate time campaigning to be president and abstaining or voting ‘present’. And Obama’s past before that was as an Illinois state senator who didn’t do anything for the state except become lifelong friends with powerful political thugs and ideologues, and he also worked as the now-infamous community organizer whose constituency consisted of the South Side of Chicago, where today it is still as he left it — infested with crime, drugs, violent gangs, etc. and he is worshipped there still as godlike by the many he fooled.
And, it is universally accepted that blacks voted for ‘the One’ in droves for the simple reason that he is black. Even conservative blacks looked away or were flippant about it when the issue of Jeremiah Wright came up in discussions. They knew Wright was a radical, anti-white racist, and they knew you don’t stay in a church for 20 years and not know that the guy up at the pulpit is spewing hate, disharmony and division. But they all gave Obama a pass and covered up for him simply because he was going to make them proud. Simply because he was black.
I was at Manila International a few weeks ago, waiting in line to get a boarding pass for an Asiana flight to Seoul. Practically everyone waiting alongside me was going to Chicago via the same Seoul flight. I got to talking to an Asian lady in front of me. The lady said she’s lived in Chicago for over 30 years, to which I replied, “So, you’re from Obama country.” She laughed then said, “Oh yes, we love him. He’s the best.” I immediately replied just to see how she’d react, “Well, I don’t like him. I don’t like his policies, and I don’t like what he’s doing to the country.” The lady looked shocked then said, “But we need to stick by him. He’s a minority like us. I voted for him because he’s a minority. And you, too, should support minorities.” To which I said, “There are thousands of minorities and thousands of blacks who would’ve been better than this guy.” To which she replied, “But Obama was the one on the ballot.”
I was tongue-tied at that point and couldn’t come up with a respectful response, but I was thinking that only an idiot would vote for someone for president because of his race or because he’s a minority. Alas, because she was a nice, old lady, I didn’t want to think of her as an idiot — only as someone who was fooled big-time, just like millions of others, by the biggest scammer ever. Hopefully, everyone’s learned their lesson in time for this November and November 2012.
You could reply: ‘I don’t vote for anyone based on their skin colour, race, ethnicity or minority status’. That’s a racist vote.
I vote for someone based only on their merit and experience. Obama has neither.
merit, experiance and policies
The belief that Obama was a great orator and thats why he was elected is nonsense. The main reason Obama won was because John McCain was the Republican candidate. The MSM and the Rino Republicans in key states installed him.
Those who are provaricators of the truth first have to accept the lies as part of themselves. When one embrasses lies ones life becomes the lie. Hence we have elected a liar to the be the President of the United States. Now that it is evident to all but the most corrupted by the lie who Obama is, we face the rest of his term knowing that every utterence, every proclomation eminating from him or his adminastration is not truthful. Once a liar has been caught, every thing they have ever said comes into question. After the coming election, when he is reduced to lame-duck status his stained “emporers clothing” will start to reak to the point none, not even those in MSM can ignor.
I agree with the premise that Obama was elected on a lie. Well, I should say lies, plural.
Certainly, going to a Church with a Pastor spewing rhetoric worthy of Castro or Stalin is eye opening. The ‘my dog ate my homework’ excuse that “I never heard such things” is laughable. Ok. It was a lie. We established that.
Here’s another.
How about promising to the American people that the net effect of his domestic policy was a ‘budget cut.’ That’s right. On the campaign trail Obama promised, over and over again, to go over the budget – - line by line – - eliminate all waste and the net result of all of his domestic plans as a net cut.
Even if we count ‘Obamacare’ as a spending cut (ok, we needed a good laugh, but they count this as a “cut”) Obama has managed to add trillions of dollars of debt onto the shoulders of our kids and grandkids.
Deafening is the MSM’s silence.
I can go on and on. As always, Roger hits the nail on the head. I hesitate to paraphrase “The Who” but “We Won’t Get Fooled Again.”
Mr. Simon, you are close, but you have missed the mark.
President Obama was elected because of what he is and not because of anything he said.
No one on either side pays attention to what he says.
In your lifetime? I didn’t know you were born last year. How quickly you have forgotten the miserable failure Bush, who many historians have called the worst President in history. Maybe your Haliburton or Big Oil stocks are going down, which is why you hate Obama.
We haven’t forgotten. It’s just that we remember the world the way it was. You remember it the way you wish it had been.
Vinny, Ignorance is curable. Arrogance is appalling. A combination of the two is unassailable by either reason, logic or manners. Therefore I close my remarks.
Well, Vinny, your point is that Bush was worse. Ok. But how about Roger’s main point that Obama is a failure. Address the central points of his argument. What he assigns as a failure, you call success? Ok, make your case.
Yeah, Vin. 9 out of 10 Marxist professors agree, Bush was a disaster. Before this is all over, you’ll be praying on bended knee that Bush was still in office.
Extract your head out of your fundament.
No, Vinny, I wasn’t born yesterday. I remember the second-worst president of all time – Jimmy Carter.
James Buchanan was worst; can’t say I remember him though.
President Obama promised while on the campaign trail that he would have transparency in his regime. The Main Stream Media should have been questioning that when he said it. There would be no “birther” type questioning about his ability to be President if he had just provided a long form birth certificate instead of a record of live birth that lacks documentation like a delivering physician and hospital he was born in. He refused to explain how he got an Indonesian passport to travel to Afghanistan when as an American citizen he would not have been not able to access that country and he could not have obtained a passport from a foreign country. The USA does not allow for dual citizenship. He either lied, or he renounced his US citizenship. Which was it? He also has refused to release any of his college records, including his supposed scholarships that are provided to those who are not US citizens. All of this could be thrown out by his providing documentation that would prove them lies. He either can not, or will not refute these allegations, hence the theories and claims still exist. Obama has lied to us on many issues and the media is still fawning over him. Why do they refuse to question his integrity or actually investigate these claims? Is there a commitment in the MSM to have BHO’s view of the world implemented in our country? He is a failure in allowing America to thrive as a free nation with a free market economy that when left unimpeded works wonderfully. He is a narcissistic socialist in the worst way. We need him to fail.
Why would any human being spend more than $1.5 million in court to prevent his having to present a birth certificate when a certificate replacement fee is $25 ?
The $1.5 million actually covers all of Obama’s legal defense fund. It was used to defend dozens of issues, one of which was the claim that the COLB (certificate of live birth) provided by Hawaii was not a legal birth certificate. It wouldn’t have done Obama any good to spend the $25 to get another document, because that would have another COLB, since that is all Hawaii gives out anymore.
This issue, like many others is just another example of wishfull thinking trumping real life data. Like the claim above that Obama must have given up his citizenship because he went to school in Indonesia. It doesn’t matter how many times you quote the relevant laws to these guys, they are so invested in the idea that they are going to be able to get rid of Obama this way, that they won’t let anything as trivial as reality penetrate.
Thank you Mark. i stand corrected.
We have had this discussion before Mark (and I agree with you on most issues) – but you are simply factually incorrect on this issue.
1. BHO has – to date – never produced a birth verification document that would have been accepted as valid for a military enlistment or for application for a security clearance. Forget the authenticity issue – everything produced to date is legally considered an “informal” document.
2. Any security investigator or military recruiter could request a formal document from the state that had unquestioned legal standing. These documents are produced in the hundreds every day for a variety of purposes. The state of Hawaii is formally enjoined from releasing such a document on BHO. A significant component of the Obama legal defense fund has been spent creating this injunction and defending it against challenges.
The state of Hawaii could end all speculation in this issue in a formal and permanent way – before the end of the day today. They are formally enjoined from doing so by the Obama Administration.
I make no sweeping or automatic assumption as to why this is – but asking why is a reasonable question. Perhaps it is part of the broad based stonewalling that includes Obama’s medical and academic records. Perhaps BHO is keeping this issue in reserve so as to resolve it in 2012 and show his detractors to be loonies. Perhaps there is something deeper. Who knows?
One thing remains. The state of Hawaii could resolve this issue in a clear, verifiable and impossible to dispute way TODAY. They are formally and aggressively prevented from doing so. This can be easily verified. Asking why is a reasonable question.
The certificate of live birth, which Obama has produced, has the full legal weight and authority of the state of Hawaii behind it. It’s the document that anyone born in that state gets when they ask for a copy of their birth certificate.
Mark my friend – you can repeat that as many times as you want – it does not make it true. A COLB and a State Certified copy of a Birth Certificate are NOT the same document. I dealt with these documents in an official capacity for 15 years. In many legal contexts a COLB is an informal document. And – most importantly – birth certificates are like college transcripts; when it is important (security clearances for example) – one requests a sealed original from the verifying source. (Paper is easy to forge and when dealing with security issues – you just assume that 3rd hand paper is fake and you seek out originals.)
Obama has an injunction against the state of Hawaii to prevent it from releasing any birth verification documents. He has gone to great lengths to maintain this injunction. No previous presidents have done this. All previous (modern) presidents have had their BC pulled hundreds of times. No previous president has gone to these lengths to prevent their home state from releasing original birth documents. This is the issue. Who cares about the status of already released paper – that isn’t the issue) He is holding originals extremely close to the vest. This is not in dispute. He is in fact doing this. You can verify and cross reference the injunction in less time than it took to read this. Aren’t you even the tiniest bit curious as to why?
One factor in Barack Obama’s election that does not receive enough serious attention is that his primary opponent was Hillary Clinton. We ignore at our peril that Clinton came uncomfortably close to receiving her party’s nomination in 2008. Even as Obama has predictably demonstrated his incompetence in office (something that many sensed before his nomination and Hillary punctuated with her “who are you going to call at 3:00am” tagline), the very specter of Hillary and her meaningless other returning to the White House very probably drove many voters into the Hope and Change camp. Hillary’s uncharacteristic relative silence and virtual invisibility in the Obama administration may very well presage her riding to the rescue of a decimated and downward-spiraling Democratic Party in 2012, along with her oft-cited sixteen million voters in tow. Her age won’t permit her to wait until 2016 for another run; she’s maintaining her distance from, while no doubt keenly watching, the floundering incumbent–and, perhaps most importantly, her arrogance and raw ambition is on par with that of her boss.
Amen. Remember for those not in thrall to the Clintons, that Hillary is Obama-lite. All of them the leaders of the “totalitarian Left”, which institutionally uses any means fair or foul to attain their ends. Review of her public record shows she is also a serial liar and fraud, twin to her husband who so many find so “charming”.As they did Obama.
Can the Democratic Party of the USA be saved when their idols are Clinton and Kennedy clones? Should it be saved? Ditto Republican Party which acts and has acted in many ways in collusion with these “Democrats” in limiting rights protected by the Constitution, which they are all bound on oath to Uphold and Defend. But in these days how insignficant is fidelity to a freely taken oath. The clear aims of these “Democrats” is power without responsibility or accountability. It is unfortunately the citizens who must disallow this takeover of the nation by these tyrants, would be monarchs : a line from the musical 1776, Is Anybody There, Does Anybody Care?
Amen. Remember for those not in thrall to the Clintons, that Hillary is Obama-lite. All of them the flag-bearers of the “totalitarian Left”, which institutionally uses any means fair or foul to attain their ends. Review of her public record shows she is also a serial liar and fraud, twin to her husband who so many find so “charming”.As they did Obama.
Can the Democratic Party of the USA be saved when their idols are Clinton and Kennedy clones? Should it be saved? Ditto Republican Party which acts and has acted in many ways in collusion with these “Democrats” in limiting rights protected by the Constitution, which they are all bound on oath to Uphold and Defend. But in these days how signficant is fidelity to a freely taken oath. The clear aims of these “Democrats” is power without responsibility or accountability. It is unfortunately the citizens who must disallow this takeover of the nation by these tyrants, would be monarchs : from the musical 1776, Is Anybody There, Does Anybody Care?
Nobody could have succeeded as President;
There will be no support for the required actions
until the first few financial failures by states
such as California provide emotional motivation.
Competence covers a multitude of sins in a ruler;
This was old news when Shakespeare included it
in the interview-for-kingship scene in MacBeth.
Obama is incompetent, his team is no better, and
their political philosophy is as bankrupt as the
U.S. of A. and the rest of the developed world.
The elections this November will determine whether
the _Federal_ government gets a vote of confidence
from the people, and the states, to begin reform
and recovery, or whether it loses that vote, and
becomes an increasingly irrelevant and impotent
impediment as the Hard Times arrive, and power
devolves to the states.
@ pelaut: We’re doomed to Demoncrat domination
What you mean ‘We’ wimp man ?
An individual is powerless against the federal government,
an individual company less so, and on up the line to the
states, which have more, ah, ‘kinetic energy’ than the Feds.
The US military is oath bound to protect the Constitution,
obey _lawful_ orders, and stay far away from political
wars, short of literal armed rebellion against _lawful_
acts of the Federal government; The military gets to
decide what ‘_lawful_’ is.
Lots of complaining about the ” mainstream media “. Lots of complaining that Fox News has softened up.
Follow the money my fellow conservatives. Follow the money.
http://www.themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=29358
Follow the money indeed. Bad news but thanks anyway for the link.
I’d like to share this letter I recently sent to Hussein Obama:
Dear (not my president) Hussein O.
> You & your current administration, with the inclusion of Pelosi & Reid et
> al have put MY country on a downward slide since you took your first
> breath as leader of this country. You have lied, misrepresented & double
> talked about America & your asinine goals for America. In theory, you
> represent America, in reality, you by now means or stretch of the
> imagination, represent Americans. When history judges you, any pages
> dedicated to you & your miserable handling of America’s problems will be
> blank with little footnotes stating “too bad, this guy didn’t do anything
> for the good of the USA that’s even worth writing about”. I don’t know how
> you can sleep at night with all the problems that are going on & you are
> either doing the wrong things or nothing about them, you must be counting
> golf balls in order to be able to fall asleep. Whatever lessons you
> learned about my country while growing up must have been force fed to you
> by folks who hate America & Americans as much as you appear to. I could go
> on & on but fact is this letter won’t go any further than some dim witted
> admin assistant so I’ll just close with this, when you’re finally gone
> from the White House & have taken all your moronic cronies with you, I can
> only pray that you & your socialist fools haven’t done irreparable harm to
> the country that the real patriotic citizens love.
>
> Sincerely,
>
>
> Scott Chester
> 919-285-6952
When I see, read, hear, and watch the bitter and despicably poisonous lies being publicized about Israel all over the world, and when I realize how many uninformed people including Barack Obama are convinced to hate Israel by this one sided, evil, malicious, and false propaganda, I can see just how easy it was for Obama to lie his way into the White House.
All Obama needed was for the American media to trumpet what a wonderful guy he was while at the same time doing all in their power to poison public opinion against his opponent and to hammer Bush every chance it got.
Indeed, I would point out that the American media is still slobbering over Obama while ignoring, ridiculing, or just lying about any person like Sarah Palin or group like the Tea Parties which opposes him.
Just like the same media which is in love with Arab terrorists who murder innocents but loathe Israel the most moral and decent state in the world.
Think about it.
How is Obama failing? By his thug marxist lights he is succeeding in deconstructing Amerika beyond the wildest dreams of the get-whitey-kill-the-pig-dormitory-youth he was just a short time ago. Of course, for the never-able-to-renounce-liberalism Roger Simon Obama can’t, simply can’t be a vicious agent of pure destruction. Because being a lefty Obama’s heart’s in the right place donchyaknow.
Yes McCain gave us BHO. But it was not by failing to attack him on Rev. Wright. In fact, refraining from such an attack was probably smart politics. Rather, he gave it to him when he sponsored McCain-Feingold and therefore had to accept gov’t funding for his campaign. It’s kinda hard to win an election when your opponent is free to raise close to a billion dollars. That money was used to great effect by buying off the media. Pretty simple actually.
As for BHO being a liar, yes the Wright affair is a pretty horrendous instance. But to my mind, the ghostwriting of his ‘memoir’ (likely by Bill Ayers) is way worse. After all, BHO’s reputation as an intellectual was made by that dazzling first effort. Many people were sucked in by that and to this day, most are unwilling to believe that they were hoodwinked.
I still say that BHO is the Gatsby of our time.
Roger, I don’t think this explanation holds water. Certainly, there were revealing moments during the campaign. Reverend Wright and how he handled it was one. The Joe the Plumber (especially the way they went after him later) was another. The attacks on Sarah Palin’s family was still another. Or the cynical way he sat out the TARP debates in the Senate. etc etc etc. Each of these had its cumulative effect.
To me, the big opening, the wakeup call, didn’t come from President Obama or his formal organization at all. After running as a centrist (“net spending cut” “no tax increases for <$200k income" etc) and a pragmatic, "transcendent" leader, what was the first thing we saw once the votes were tallied? "We're All Socialists Now". Not to mention the imfamous "never let a crisis go to waste" — it sounded cynical and partisan, and probably was.
Literally overnight, President Obama's excrutiatingly moderate message was drowned out by the liberal media's declaration that the public had voted for a radical leftist restructuring of America.
Now Obama might have pulled back from that precipice. The crowing was coming at that point mainly from pundits and reporters, not his own organization. But that's when the bailouts started, and the czars started acting. During those crucial first months, the GOP and conservatives were disorganized, almost routed. Obama had the whole field to himself, and left to his own devices he slammed hard to the left.
Either part alone might not have so alienated moderates. A media insisting that the election had been a stealth referendum on socialism wouldn't have held water if Obama had quickly triangulated by roping in a reliable circle of moderate Republicans to push a slightly less radical agenda. And Obama's actions, ostensibly taken as emergency measures, might not have come across as radical if the MSM had stuck to its "he's a moderate" messaging.
Taken together, the message to moderates was loud and clear. "Suckers!"
The conventional wisdom is that the GOP will take the House, and maybe even edge a bare majority in the Senate. At that point, Obama can blame everything on them, repackage himself as a moderate and coast to victory in 2012. This is wishful thinking. The GOP's lack of star power works for it here: Obama will still be on all the cameras. And he still has no taste for triangulation. He’ll align with his party in Congress. But since the Dems most likely to be gone next year are their moderate wing, the blue dogs, that means that Obama gets pushed even further into the ideological corner. A “mad duck” congress will only reinforce the impression of Obama as a corrupt, bumbling ideologue.
His advisors will no doubt at that point try to take on a GOP congress with a government shutdown. It won’t worth for two reasons: first, the GOP didn’t have tens of thousands of activists on the streets last time, and second, Obama simply doesn’t have the credibility of a Bill Clinton (yes, I can’t believe I’m saying that either).
My conspiracy Theory…
With respect to most of the individuals who have made excelent points about our President and their mostly correct beliefs, I believe there are a few other reasons not yet mentioned.
I believe George Soros and others have placed a Token Black Man in the Presidency, (sorry if that sounds racist). Soros, with the assistance of the Unions donated millions into OBama’s campaign to have a person that could be manipulated by them. I believe that had Obama’s regime not passed the Healthcare Reform Act he would have been assasinated by the Unions, just as I suspect JFK was assasinated for not complying with promises he made with the Unions.
It was the “Perfect Storm” an ambitious Black Man, who has a talent of a seasoned Con-Man, the countries need to purge themselves of Slave Guilt”, no real opposing candidates, (see how Obama won Senate seat in Ill.), a liberal media, progressive momentum of youth programming, and the vast finacial resources of powerful men and organizations that wanted the power of the presidency.
Had Obama’s admin not passed the Healthcare Bill he would have been assasinated and the blame would have been placed on the racist Americans. This would have been a Win-Win scenario.
If you want to set up a conspiracy theory, why not follow up on something I noticed during the campaign. McCain, however good or bad a campaigner he was, seemed to be pulling a little bit ahead in the polls and then — bam! — stock markets around the world started to collapse big time, frightening the all the media and the voters. Did Soros and his Arab oil trillionaires have enough money to short the stock market averages down in order to elect Obama? Sure, they themselves would also end up losing lots of money, but would still have plenty left afterwards. If they did in fact purposely shoot themselves in the foot like that, it’s got to count as the biggest campaign contribution in history! Too bad it has to remain secret for the time being …
Re Mr. Simon’s “Liar, Liar” article: It would be nice if it were true that Mr. Obama “was essentially DOA his first night at the White House.” But had he been DOA, he would never have been able to force through the extensive violations of individual rights, which comprises his new healthcare law. Mr. Obama has been able to violate our rights because of the entrenchment of a lethal premise that many Americans share with him
—the view that altruism is a virtue, that looting Peter to support Paul is okay.
That said, however, the general public is split over Mr. Obama’s character, which is attributable to another premises that most Americans hold. Mixed in with altruism is the recognition that productivity is a virtue and that it’s good to earn one’s own way. Were it not for these mixed premises some 1.2 million Americans would never have marched on Washington to protest the healthcare bills; they would never have rallied to Joe the Plumber’s cry, “Distribute my work ethic, not my wealth!”
It’s true that many Americans see Mr. Obama for the socialist he is and fear correctly that he is determined to go considerably beyond socialism to shape the USA into a totalitarian society. Mr. Obama’s hatred of the productive, of the rich, of earning one’s own way, of individual rights is very apparent. No one who values such things would strive to crush them as Mr. Obama has. Most Americans connected those dots long ago.
But another large segment of America has been pap-fed on the welfare state for a long time. Some of the younger are catching on. It will take a while for others to learn that the often-denigrated American work ethic is a virtue and that those who seek to avoid it should be rightfully ostracized from a proudly productive culture.
This can happen. It will start to take shape when two things take place: 1. Upcoming elections replace corrupt politicians with men of reason and integrity. 2. The basic ideas of the Founding Fathers—individual rights, limited government and free markets—are understood as values to be defended and protected consistently.
The first will happen to some extent in 2010. The second requires more time than three months. It is the second that will determine whether the first begins a cycle that will flood out of office the socialist elements there. When that happens, those who presently court the favor of factions such as the Pelosi-Reid-Frank axis will seek to be members of a more honorable group.
Since this is the first time I post on Pajamas Media, I just want to say that it’s been such an honor reading your posts, Roger, and everyone else’s here, for the past year and a half. The political correctness fascists have silenced many voices, but not yours, and many of us are indebted to you for it.
I did have a couple things to bring up about the article above;
First, I think you’re focusing on the wrong thing when you mention Obama’s lies. Heck, we know politicians lie, and for a liberal Islamo-Marxist one, it’s almost pathological; I think we all expected that. But what staggers me is the things that he NEVER lied about, but got elected on ANYWAY. We all heard him talk about wealth redistribution, which is communism, on the campaign trail. We all heard him lay out a program of surrender and apology to Islam, on the campaign trail. What really is incredible to me and why I couldn’t quite believe 2008 even with all the polls I’d seen, is that we elected him ANYWAY. How could we let it happen? Could white guilt alone really make THAT many people lose their minds?
The second point, which is a continuation of the first, is this; the cesspool of neoMarxism that gave us Obama is here to stay (not “here to triumph,” mind you – just stay). I guess what I’m saying is that I’m worried about the triumphalism that I seem to detect in your article’s “It’s over” conclusion. The propaganda, the degree of infiltration of our society that we’re facing here is highly resilient; it managed to survive the rebirth of conservatism in the eighties, the Republican Revolution of 1994, and the war on terror (which should have exposed them for the farce they are as early as noontime, September 11th, 2001). Even now, I have no doubt, the left wing blogosphere is filled with people telling their supporters that they’re about to lose a battle, but the war will go on, so, plan for the next stage.
I’d like to believe that after Obama’s two-year reign, the liberal pestilence can finally be exposed and destroyed as a living idea, but I’m afraid that it still won’t be. How do we get rid of it, ONCE AND FOR ALL? I want it gone, I desperately hope (and, since this is America, I pray) that you’re right, but the years have made me weary.
Once again, thanks for writing, and hope I didn’t strike too depressing a chord, but the state of our union has been so demoralizing that I just had to get that off my chest.
True, Simon and many respondents are far too optimistic. Obama has ‘succeeded’ in many areas. Leftism will live to fight another day, and will rely on an increasingly dumbed-down public to do so. And many many people are now dependent on the Fed gov. – far too so to vote for any true ‘small government’ candidates.
What a flood of comments! Too many to read all of them carefully, so I don’t know if anyone tackled this: the MAINstream media. You used it at least twice, Roger, in your article.
Were it not for the democrat media machine, Obama could not have been elected. The propaganda arm of the Left must be labeled as such; to fail to do so is to grant them an objectivity and professionalism they DO NOT possess; it is to give them credibility as impartial observers, just telling the news. They gain in their brainwashing efforts everytime writers of your stature allow them the misnomer: mainstream. They are not mainstream; they reflect the views of the 20% or so of this nation who are committed leftists, anti-American, pro-statist, and anti-capitalist.
Please find another term for them that accurately reflects who and what they are. Were it not for our succumbing to their semantic subterfuge (they are more than happy to wear the label “mainstream”), osmosed by the unthinking masses, they would have been shown as the radicals they are.
I said earlier that blaimg the media is an excuse. I agree 100% that they are a propaganda wing of the Democrat Party, which means they are the propaganda wing of Fascism/Communism/Socialsim/Liberalism – all basically the same thing; different methods is all.
We are (or once were) “Americans”. Nazi Germans fall for propaganda because they were…nazi germans! Ditto the other suckers around the globe.
But we are supposed to be different. We are the land of the free and home of the brave. We are the people of the Declaration and COnstitution. We don’t fall for socialist BS. 60m of us didn’t! That proves it.
But 69m of us did! That is the more disturbing fact than anything in particular from Obama. He is not the main problem. The 69m people who put hin there are. I can never forgive any of them,. I despise all of them. They are not my countrymen anymore. They are the bad guys now.
If We can’t solve them, America is over. And we have three months to do it. And it’s not looking good.
It is not an excuse. The democrat media machine is part of the problem, and the right’s failure to call them out on their bias — every time we say “mainstream media” — feeds into the Left’s control of the dialogue/narrative. In the minds of the vast unwashed, American Idol-captivated, soccer fanatical masses, the term “mainstream” media takes on an air of authority, mass consensus, unity, that simply does not comport with reality.
Why the sam bloody h#ll would we want to cede that ground, “mainstream,” to our political, economic, and philosophic enemies?
In case you haven’t noticed, this nation is going down, and fast. The Left controls our media (incl. films), our schools — high and low, our government, and most of our courts. Why traditionalists and conservatives — with the backing of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution (and the state Constitutions), and the Bill of Rights have behaved these past 100 years as if they’ve had something to apologize for is beyond any sane person’s ability to comprehend.
We complain about the Republican party having no balls; I think Americans have no balls. What else explains our being led around by the nose by a bunch of sissy, nanny-statist, politically correct busybodies.
Man-up people!
The national media is headquartered in New York City, and to a lesser degree Washington DC. The party affiliation of both cities is approximately 90% liberal democrat, and this has always given the Democrats a clear advantage.
More people are catching on to the corruption of the MSM, therefore the tide is turning..
Hey Darcy: How about Mendacity media? Or Pravda America Media-PAM for short? Ah, Moronic Media? How about the Vapid, Vacant, Vacuous and Vain Press? The Life Time Nugatory Press? The Banal, Insipid and Devoid Media?
Precisely correct,Darcy.
My friend Roger is a brilliant writer, but when we get lazy and continue to infuse legitimacy into the entrenched media apparatus for disseminating distortion…we make the road back from perdition impossible to traverse.
The propaganda vehicle for the farthest reaches of leftism have zero interest in providing the citizens of this land with anything resembling truth.
They covered up Al Gore’s global warming scam, his carbon footprint, his french poodling and more.
They covered up Edward’s moral depravity.
They watered down Clinton’s escapades.
In fact, they only guy they seemed to relish in attacking, was the poor Jewish guy they helped to get thrown out of the party entirely….he supports Israel and didn’t slam the Iraq war…and those seemed to be his greatest “sins” against rampant, unchecked leftism.
For those who believe that the Wright affair, or the Gore, affair, or the Ayers affair, or the Edwards affair, or the Ted Kennedy affair, or any of the buried, watered down, distorted and hidden facts…are not of consequence in the polling booths, they apparently disagree with the leftist remarks that at least a 15% swing is due to the tilted, slanted, intentionally deceptive coverage in national elections.
There was virtually no examination of the relationships with Frank Marshall Davis, Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said, Ali Abuminah, Robert Malley, Carl Davidson, or Jeremiah Wright…by the entrenched media.
This lack of examination AND the intentional “promotional” pieces done by the media, gave us Obama. They also led to the power bases of Reid, Biden and Barney Frank…controlling both other houses.
Think about that. Reid, Biden and Barney Frank controlling our legislation. A wimp, a simp and a pimp…making all the laws of this land.
Eric Holder calling US cowards for not talking about race in this country, and when someone does…they are attacked for doing so.
And…complete silence from the entrenched media on the subject. If we can’t get easy access to the truth, if we are fed a constant stream of lies and distortion…we cannot self-govern this land of ours.
Roger is a brilliant man for pointing this out. We just need to call the entrenched media what they are. Traitors to the truth.
While you’re at it, why not take a page from the “Left’s” book. They have successfully for the past 40 years played with the meanings of words, very Orwellian, and got the population to accept their terms: Left-wing meaning,good, humane, people supportive, in contrast to traditional meanings of Left as “sinister”. And Right as ignoble, vicious, people hating and restricting, instead of its traditional meaning of dextrous, competent, upright and people respecting. So why not play word games to change these names into true statements as WRONG-wing, and RIGHT-wing, consistent with traditional meanings? Silly? That’s the point. With repetition and usage these meanings might become vernacular. And when they do, watch the Left go up in smoke for the derision in these words to their predatory aims/goals and methods which they have successfully achieved within those 40 years.
Whatever he screwed up, locally, can be repaired by a future and hopefully better president (even though it may be expensive). But the damage caused by his disastrous foreign policy is beyond repair- unless a new Nixon/Kissinger or Reagan comes along- and what are the chances of that?
Open question -
Has BHO attended any religious service, of any denomination, since his election?
I think he attends services when he is at Camp David, where there is a military chaplain. A perfect set up: he gets to check present and there are no political downsides to the message. Recently, he seems to prefer the golf course to Camp David. He’s not really a quiet mountain retreat kind of guy.
Had Obama not had the MSM covering his six and covering his faux paus, he’d still be the junior senator from Illinois. That, and had the Republican run a real candidate, to illuminate the actual differences between two lines of thought, not someone who thought he was entitled to it due to his constant brides-maid status.
So many of my right wing friends now miss Bush. And when Bush was president so many of my left wing friends missed Clinton. And so on and so on and so on…it goes. Me? I miss being younger at times, but I do not miss the past like that. I tend to lead toward now, and the future. But many contributors make some good points. This president, now in his second year must get the credit for stopping the financial destruction of our economy and fixing our nations health care system, but he does have a lot more to do, and to learn to try much harder if he is to fix the money draining wars and entitlements and re-direct our economy. Does he and this congress, or even the next congress have the political will to tackle entitlements? I don’t believe so…but who knows? Nice article, thanks.
You are exhibit A in the “Number One Problem with America” Category. It’s people like you.
You’re an egoist with little heart. You pretend to be able to judge right and left from some sort of centrist, or moderate position. All that means is that people who come up with their own ideas to the right ofd you or to the left of you, completely control your ‘thinking’. They have the ideas and set the limits. You position yourself in the middle of their hard work and commence to moral preening.
You’re just a jackass is all.
And Obama solved the healtch care thing? Wow. Glad you cleared that up for everyone.
Poor Citizen only resorts to this ‘everybody does it’ logic when he can’t think of a rebuttal in support of the leftist point of view. In this case there was no rebuttal of the Obama is a liar thesis.
Mike Mc: I like your response to “poor citizen” quite a bit. It reminds me of how, when I was in my 20s, I liked to tell myself I was a “reasonable” moderate who could see the points of commonality that the people on the opposite sides of the political spectrum missed. I continued in that way of thinking for some time, but eventually experience made me recognize the depravity of the lies told by those on the left which could not be excused.
The man in the middle, the fence-sitter who preseumes moral superiority for not taking sides. The enabler of atrocity and slaughter. Ayn Rand had Ed’s type pegged:
“There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if, only, by accepting the responsibility of choice. But the man in the middle is the knave who blanks out the truth in order to pretend that no choice or values exist, who is willing to sit out the course of any battle, willing to cash in on the blood of the innocent or to crawl on his belly to the guilty, who dispenses justice by condemning both the robber and the robbed to jail, who solves conflicts by ordering the thinker and the fool to meet each other halfway. In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit. In that transfusion of blood which drains the good to feed the evil, the compromiser is the transmitting rubber tube.”
Ayn Rand – Atlas Shrugged, pp965-966
oops sorry, did’nt mean to talk about history, facts and reality… you can get back to the important stuff you like such as name calling and ignorance, did not mean to bother you….
oh yeah, I usually find a little less caffeine and a little more alcohol helps with that attitude thing my young friend.
Knock it off. You’d have been laughed out of a high school debate club for using the logical fallacies in comment #79.
To Whit: ‘This president, now in his second year must get the credit for stopping the financial destruction of our economy and fixing our nations health care system, but he does have a lot more to do, and to learn to try much harder if he is to fix the money draining wars and entitlements and re-direct our economy.’
Observing that it will be necessary that Obama try harder to overcome even more adversity to succeed at his next tasks begs the question of whether he has actually succeeded at his current tasks. You cast an unsupported premise that he has already succeeded as a forgone conclusion, make the assumption that the reader must accept this (give him credit), and use that to segue into what seems on the surface a reasonable hope that Obama again succeeds.
This is called circular reasoning. The same proposition occurs as both the conclusion, and the premise that conclusion is based on.
Oh please, you define a fact as any opinion that fits into your preconceived notions.
And your history is nothing more than what you want to remember.
That so called “financial destruction” was never more than a myth started by those who’s actually believe that govt is capable of running the economy better than anyone else.
Had the banks collapsed, there would have been a short term panic, but the damage done would have been much less than the damage that has already been done by the bailouts. And the damage done by the bailouts is continuing and increasing.
Let’s see, govt breaks health care in the first place. Then Obama, against the wishes of a solid majority of American’s proceeds to break it even further. And you, without any evidence to support your claim, declare this to be a fix.
It’s really pathetic to watch a liberal try to do logic.
Double Think: Obama can hold two conflicting thoughts in his head and believe them both to be true.
Yes, it was a lie, but it was lie people obviously wanted to believe. I have heard people say that McCain should have made more of an issue of Wright…to what purpose? People knew about it, and yet they chose to ignore it. But then again, after the election when so many other things became apparent that lie became apparent too. Too late.
Exactly right, Roger L Simon. You’ve hit right on the truth. A one term Jimmy Carter president is now in the White House and AMERICA: IS NOW AT THE CROSSROADS
In times such as these, we need only to look at world history. The ancient civilizations of Persia and Greece come to mind. One might consider the history of the British or Roman Empires; Napoleonic France or Spain; also the dynasties of the Chinese and Japanese Emperors, along with the Egyptian Pharos, or the Mayans and Aztecs. All of these republics, empires and dynasties have fallen upon the dust heap of history. Do these once great societies have any meaning in our present day? Oh yes! Big time!
The study of these civilizations was the basis and foundation for our Constitutional Republic. Madison, Jefferson, Hamilton, Adams and all our founding fathers studied how these civilizations emerged, evolved and eventually failed. Our founders answered these rises and collapses of past civilizations with the Great American Experiment; The Constitution of the United States of America; our map for continuing success.
Our grand document is based on the creation, evolvement and failure of every civilization in history. It was conceived through the wisdom of all the grand thinkers in world history. (Thinkers and philosophers who knew that their history would be important to some future civilization and they were intelligent enough to write it down or carve it in stone) Our Constitution is a document written to preserve individual liberty and to organize a union of separate states, into a Federal Union; The United States of America.
Why do we now fail our Constitution? Why don’t we teach more of it in public and private schools? Why do politicians and judges say it’s outdated? The reality is that we are at the crossroads between the success or failure of our Constitutional Republic. This Great Document needs to be honored and cherished dearly.
Our Congress; the Senate and House of Representatives, is now failing us by passing legislation that they do not read before they vote on it’s passage. Our President is failing our country by signing this unread legislation into law. We might call this a failure of their Oath of Office. Or we might call it a failure of our national identity. Either way, we can not continue to exist as a nation under these failures in government.
Ancient Rome is a prime example. Senators of the Roman Republic sat in their Coliseum seats, along with the Roman Emperors. They watched as slaves fought gladiators and cheered for blood. They watched as Christians were eaten by lions while the minions screamed for more blood. Those Senators allowed the decline of the Roman Republic by their lack of concern, accession and decadence. Eventually, their appeasements to the Caesars contributed to the decline of the Republic and the Empire. All was lost as hoards of barbarians over-ran a militarily-over-extended, over-taxed, Roman Empire.
That barbarism was unmatched until the 20th century, when Marxist/Socialist/Communism overtook Russia and Eastern Europe, culminating in the deaths of 50 million human beings. All of them murdered and starved by a mentally ill, psychotic-paranoid, Joseph Stalin; along with his secret police.
Adolph Hitler murdered 6 million Jews. Joseph Stalin murdered 50 million of his own Soviet people. The German people were compliant with Hitler and the Soviets with Stalin. They followed those leaders to their graves. The Roman Senators were compliant with the Caesars. Rome fell, as all great civilizations did in time. None of those civilizations had a living Constitution: a map for success throughout the ages. Our nation has one and it’s high time our Congress and our President start abiding by it.
The failure to follow our Founding Fathers’ map has lead America down the wrong road; to the crossroads we find ourselves looking upon. A “fundamental change in America”, we do not need. What we do need, is to return to a “foundation based on our Constitution”. We should command the respect due to us and their Oath of Office, from all our elected officials in city, county, state and federal government. Only that respect to their Constitutional Oaths and to the People, will save this country from the dust heap of history. We, as a free Nation, still have the right to demand that of our elected representatives. This is the duty and the responsibility of every citizen in a Constitutional Republic. Demand it! Vote for it! Pass it on to everyone!!
If you are an American Patriot, then please, remember this on November 2, 2010. VOTE !
God’s Speed America!
Let’s start this post by admitting that Obama is an idiot, an ideologue, and an incompetent. That can now be shown in so many ways as to be indisputable.
However, it isn’t considered “strange” or “racism”, when Catholics voted for Kennedy over Nixon. Nor is it considered odd when a “favorite son” wins his home state. Nor is it odd when someone favors a person of the same ethnic background as themselves. I haven’t noticed Irish-American politicians refusing to come out on Saint Patrick’s Day, nor do Italian-American politicians remaining unseen on Columbus Day. So exactly why is it so “wrong” for blacks to have voted for Obama? Let’s be realistic, often the actual political issues don’t enter into it for many, if not the majority, of voters. They are either misinformed, uninformed or assume both sides are lying and don’t care. It’s only us political junkies who follow every breeze, gust and gale, of the political winds.
In any case, I think the problem lies in our collective pasts. Being against someone black, was a sign of ill intent. It was a derogatory comment on their skin color. At one time black equaled bad, it wasn’t simply an ethnic group, but a judgment. Now it should be considered no better – or worse – then any other ethnic group. Or other kind of group for that matter, all other things being close to equal. As for Obama, anyone who says they knew he was going to turn out to be as bad as he is, is just engaging in 20/20 hindsight. Especially considering the lengths he went to to hide his past, and how little he actually said. Me? I’m black, I tend to be suspicious of “slick talking”, insincere . No one dreamed he would turn out to be as, terrible as he is.
America had not elected a very left administration since LBJ in the 1960s and while surprised by how left Jimmy Carter was in practice, was horrified by the consequence and did not elect any known liberal for almost 30 years. During those 30 years we forgot what Liberals are like. Obama like Carter successfully misrepresented himself as a moderate but has governed as by far the most radical of Presidents and again the American population is horrified. The Democrats stand unmasked. The “moderate Democrats” who voted for Obama’s radical agenda are shown not to be moderate but to vote for extremist legislation against their constituents will. The Democrats are destroyed for another 30 years – and the destruction will deepen as the Obama anti-business stagnation becomes the Obama stagflation. The only question is whether the Republicans can find the next Ronald Reagan and purge themselves of the RINOs who spent too much and sold out to lobbyists and the idea that they could use federal spending to buy popularity.
I’ve been writing about the real Obama for several weeks on my blog. What do all the characters around the President, past and present, have in common? They are all altruists, they advocate the sacrifice of the individual to the collective. Obama has lost credibility because the American people have a sense about how wrong and how evil this idea really is. They know that the more productive they are the more will be demanded of them…and they know that he is working on behalf only of those who have hated what is great about America for decades. Obama has no moral authority now because he has proven to be so consistently altruistic that he can be trusted to do the very opposite of the right thing…every time he acts.
Eric Holder is helping the failure progress by filing suit, and harrassing Arizona for purported ‘racial profiling’.
‘Racial profiling’ is taking place on the Canadian border through the continued harrassment of all pale skinned individuals whom speak the english language. AND THESE ARE NOT AMERICANS.
This administration has played it’s hand and shown how much it will depend on racial strife for implementation of it’s policies.
THESE DEMOCRATS ARE WORSE THAN NAZI’S.
I think many white liberals who voted for Obama didn’t “sign up” for the radical black theology stuff that is at the forefront of his politics and his core beliefs. Th MSM was so busy being politically correct (and liberal) that they refused to bring up anything that appeared to be critical of Obamas color. I don’t believe for a second that the Dems and his handlers didn’t know this during his election. In fact, they rode the race card to victory. Now, it has backfired on them. Obama cares more about “payback” than he does this country. He is a liar, but liberals are still too afraid to call him on any of the Rev. Wright/Blank Panther stuff because they need the black vote. They are trapped, and the rest of us have to suffer the consequences.
But among the t**ds he has already deposited in the national bowl are a health-care bureaucracy with special favors to special interests and two seats (one already, one to come) on the Supreme Court given over to anti-constitutionalists. A correction in course come November may reduce the stink and stain of the first deposit, but the crapulous creature has and will have left us decades of noxious filth with the second and third.
There is no hope for the legacy media except that it should perish; it will continue to lie and to cover up for the leftists. But I hope that the conservatives and moderates who recognized the lie but nevertheless sat on their hands instead of voting for McCain will repent and never make such a mistake again.
Problem is older and deeper Roger. If anyone out there thinks that electing a black man will make this racial division go away…. you are a fool. This is going to be a long and ugly road into catastrophe. Black America has sold it’s children into the perdition of political oblivion using the lies of faux victimization and faux resentment. THE MSM is just the cover for pot before it boils over. Too bad.
I think it goes deeper. The Nation of Islam has a front Christian church called the Friendship Baptist church and it has chapters throughout the country as well as other differently named congregations which operate the same way throughout the country (Wright’s “church” is most likely an example). What kind of person would feel at home in a sham religion? Its basically someone who believes that he doesn’t have a real identity, a real home and in truth nobody does and those who think they do are suckers and rubes. Add to that a healthy dose of Chicago machine politics and you have a real piece of slimy work.
I’ve always wondered why so many of the African American Christian Churches seemed so in lockstep with the actions of a group that basically rejects their views. Many of these churches run programs that do help in the community such as food banks and daycare, so in that regard they are pillars of the community. But if they are also supporting Black Liberation Theology, which I regard as a non-religion because it is more concerned with status and material wealth than spiritual things, then I don’t know that Christian is a proper name for them.
I always thought that the hardest things that The Teleprompter Messiah did in life were taking an oath of allegiance to uphold the U.S. constitution and disowning his own grandmother (“I can no more disown him [Reverend Wright] than I can my white grandmother.”). I am thankful though that he has experience working for private sector (working at the ice cream shop in 7th grade in Hawaii).
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Why continue to refer to the media as the “mainstream” media. They are no such thing. Better to call them the Democrat or leftstream media.
Here is something interesting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ccbd4DbpS4c&feature=topvideos
Oh Barry was a slickie boy, no doubt about it. He figured out the mood of the country pretty good and with the help of the dinosaur media and the TV talking airheads he got his attack machine going in high gear. He knew that he could do and say a lot of stuff that no one would question because at the time his nomination was historic and no one wanted to be thought of as racist by questioning the first half black president. Oh yeah, he was a smooth operator, promising all things to all people, so much so that he managed to get 53 percent of the voters to choose him. But Barry forgot that once he ran a successful campaign and won the job he then had to do the work the job demanded, that is, he actually had to be the President of the United States. And Barry has been unable to do that.
It’s interesting that as technology savvy Obama’s supporters seem to be, they underestimate the abilities of their opposition to have the same skills and use the same tools. Obama lies or misleads deliberately and anyone can check on fifty different websites to prove him wrong. And the White House staff seems surprised by this. This is why he is failing. Before, politicians could lie to us and it would be weeks before some newspaper writer would get hungry enough for attention to write a column exposing them. Now the news media is for the most part compromised by their own idol worship, but countless blogs, websites and talk radio can expose their perfidy. It’s the ultimate hubris on their part in believing that conservatives with our state school degrees and clinging to our guns and religion would not be able to crank up a PC and call them on their actions. It’s almost laughable if it were not so damned arrogant.
One of the core tenets of liberalism, is that everyone who isn’t a liberal is stupid.
Fortunately enough for us, many liberals actually believe this, and act on that belief.
Actually, they do give us a choice, Mark: Stupid or Evil. Well, really actually, only some of them give us that choice. But then, really actually really, conservatives have started to emulate them, which will not be good for the long-term health of our movement.
i admit that i’ve never read any of his numerous autobiographies so maybe i’m simply un-read, but when exactly did barry soetero become barack hussein obama??
did he legally change his name or is he not even who he says he is? … and how bizarre it is that such a question can even be asked about the president of the united states!
I believe the answer is (and here…drum roll….oh no, a Birther!) – he was born with the name Barack Hussein Obama. Actually, from the Kenya birth certificate shown on the web – if authentic – it is BHO II. He adopted Soetoro, or his mother and step-father did, after Stanley married Mr. Soetoro. At that point, Barack became ‘Barry’, which he used through college. At a certain point, he became Barack again, perhaps during law school.
Yes, the fact that the question must be asked, and is asked by reasonable people, shows how corrupted the system has become.
In fairness to Mr. Obama, though, both Bush and Clinton had skeletons in the closet before being elected.
While I agree with the general idea, I think it focuses too much on one “lie”. It should be plural.
During the campaign, Obama sounded very reasonable most of the time, particularly in his tone. His approach was fresh, and back then his head moving back and forth didn’t seem silly: who realised he was reading off teleprompters all the time? Even that was a lie of sorts.
Obama, his campaign, and the supportive media created a construct, an image, that was quite different to the real man. In many ways they did the same with Sarah Palin, buts hers was an evil, misshapen reverse image. Both constructions were largely lies. That in itself may not be entirely unusual, although in both cases, the speed with which each image was built, and the complete lack of scrutiny, were probably new records.
Palin may resurrect herself, but only if she is in fact a great deal better than the image the Democrats have constructed for her. Her position is similar to Ronald Reagan in that respect, and it remains to be seen if she can overcome it the way he did. She has time, and so far is doing quite well.
Obama has the entirely opposite problem. His image is that he is super-human. He is the next evolutionary development in mankind, an uber-leader of whom we are barely worthy. His problem is living up to that, and so far he isn’t doing too well.
While there are many specific lies, and the Reverend Wright one is a biggy, the overall lie is that Obama was capable, competent and ready to be President. That so far is distinctly looking a tad exaggerated.
President Obama was a law professor and Editor of the Harvard Law Review. However the complete and utter lack of any academic achievements or written works would tend to indicate he was probably the least productive Professor of Law in the entire western world. Being President requires a little more effort, and I don’t think Obama realised that at all. Now, in the spotlight, he is failing and has no idea what to do about it.
I think his fundamental problem is he has had too many helping hands and has never really had to do the hard yards himself. Now that he needs to rely on himself, he is finding he never really learnt how. Again, its an interesting contrast to Palin, who appears to be an entirely self-made woman.
Only a narcisist could write two autobiographies before he had ewen done anything note worthy!
… this is because he wasn’t (an) orator in the first place, just an illusion that seemed to read decently off a teleprompter. And with the prompter gone the [mobbed-up Mussolini-modeled modified-Marxist murtadd (or so he says) Muslim] has no clothes.
That part’s absolutely True — and makes the rest but moot.
The fact is that Obama has an agenda and it is not that of the American people.
He seems convinced that by supporting our enemies he will get us to agree with and follow him.
He is not a leader.
Where is he when Jewish tombstones are being used to pave roads in the Ukraine?
Silent. Too busy kissing the butts of his Muslim friends.
http://jewishdailyreport.wordpress.com/2010/07/13/jewish-tombstones-used-to-pave-roads-in-ukraine/
But yet, you, like almost every “Journalist” left out the most important factor. Prior to the “election” there was a Senate “investigation” into the Constitutional eligiblity for the Presidency as to John McCain which was raised by the Democrat majority. At that hearing testimony was given by Michael Chertoff (Sec of Homeland Sec.) and others as to the meaning of the Art II requirement of being a “natural born citizen”. In the subsequent Senate Resolution 511 which resulted from this investigation, after Mr.McCain was caused to produce his Birth Certificate, the definition was in fact stated as being “born to American citizens”, which appears in its text. However, due to political correctness, negligence and misfeasance of Mr. McCain, the GOP and all legislators, and officials involved in the elections process, no one asked that simple question of Mr. Obama-wheres your Birth Certificate?
I used to have this nightwatchman job where I would patrol the site every 1/2 hour and spend the reset listening to the radio. Well on Sunday mornings, the radio stations do their best to stuff all the required public service time before their regular listeners wake up. Well this stuff is just golden for weird stuff from the various social service organization, governmental and otherwise.
Long story short, is that these programs would always start out talking about “the poor” but 10 minutes into the program segment, they would have completely transitioned to “Black” .. like their are no poor White folks out there.
My point, the entire subject of “Civil Rights” has transitioned completely in the DOJ to “Black Rights,” like there are not any White, Asian, etc. folks out in the hinterland that require civil rights protection.
Well-said, Neo. Minorities want us to believe that (1) Whites’ civil rights can’t be violated, and (2) anyway, even if they could, Whites deserve it as pay-back.
Don’t be so naive Roger, Barako has been groomed to destroy our great country,and he’s doing just that. He has no intention to keep his promises. For all you sleepy heads out there,and you know who you are,WAKE UP before it’s too late !
The best way to deal with the current all thumbs Obama Administration is to let it go on its thoughtless merry way. This administration doesn’t need Republicans attacking it, it is fully capable of make itself look foolish or bungling without any outside help. This White House believes its own spin and has little concern for facts or reality. They really think they are smarter and more able than anybody outside their little magic circle. Well, boys, elections do have consequences and after the next election, lets see how they like it.
wonder if the press will notice the new expose on how Obama’s supporters bullied Hillary’s at the caucuses…
and of course she got the same number of votes as he did: he “won” in the caucuses, with the press proclaiming him as winner long before he actually won.
Hillary and Obama are birds of the same feather. Both pompous carpetbaggers. Both incompetent. Both from academia. Both communists. ’nuff said.
For Obama to deny Wright is little different from Austin “Danger” Powers denying ownership of the Swedish Penis Enlarger, despite being presented with a receipt for its purchase, a warranty card in his name, and a book written by him extolling the virtures of its use. “It’s not mine, baby”, he said. Who believed him?
In this long, long comment section no one has brought up the world stock market crash that occurred during the presidential campaign. I can remember standing in line at a bank watching TV and listening to frightened media people talking about how dangerous the crash was — and by implication how Republicans were basically to blame because Bush was president. The timing of the crash is noteworthy if in fact it was coincidence — and remember that Soros and most Arab oil trillionaires hated Bush with a passion. I don’t know if they got together and decided to short the world stock markets down just before the election, or even whether in combination they had enough money to do the job had they wanted to. Granted the financial chaos that resulted from the crash would have cost them lots of money, but they could afford to lose alot and still have plenty left over. Maybe they just counted their losses as the biggest campaign contribution ever! In any case, discussing the election without acknowledging the effect of all those extremely frightening financial headlines leads to very misleading conclusions as to why Obama won.
Lying, for sure, is the first chapter of Marxism 101. Ignoring the will of the people, though, is the second. Destroying anything non-Marxist is a close third.
If the Capitol building were on fire, the President would order it be hosed down with gasoline.
Our traditions. Our institutions. Our Constitution. Our borders. Our system of free enterprise. Our financial stability. Our security. Our freedom. Our entire way of life. When Obama took office on Tuesday, January 20th, 2009, President Barack Obama began a systematic plan of attack. The target was every freedom loving facet of the United States of America. If I hear one more Dick Morris and Sean Hannity claim that Obama’s reckless mishandling of the BP spill disaster was due to incompetence, I’ll explode. Every America-hating move Obama’s made since that fateful Tuesday has been thought out to the letter with the thoroughness of the Japanese attack the morning of December 7th, 1941.
Allow me to skip over the examples of Obama’s disgusting deeds, from Holder’s pronouncement that American males are racial cowards to The Black Panther debacle in Philadelphia to Obama’s bankrupt country-killing, 4 trillion dollar spending spree, to ObamaCareRationing, to Obama’s shrill cry for comprehensive immigration reform which is really Obama’s way of calling for amnesty for 15 million illegal aliens who would become Democratic voters, to Obama’s sabotaging of the war on Islamic terrorism.
All this you know. Here’s my insight.
There’s no way on God’s green earth Obama is running for re-election. That political jewel belongs to the Clintons.
But here’s what our crack mainstream media. Sorry, as you were.
But here’s what Americans brave and bold need to do to prevent the Clintons from disavowing all the dirt that Obama’s done to this country since that fateful day in January.
Somehow, somebody’s gotta ask Hillary if she agrees that Arizona should be sued. And, if not, why not. Somehow, somebody’s gotta get Hillary to go on the record about everything else, from giving Miranda rights to terrorists, to preventing foreign ships from aiding in the first week with the BP clean up, to letting those Panther bastards go free after their despicable, video taped and proven intimidation of voters in Philadelphia, to every other contemptible move Obama’s made since he assumed the office of President of the United States.
You heard Bill Clinton start the Hillary denial train last week when Clinton criticized Obama’s handling of the BP cleanup operations. Well, the Clintons and their lawyers for the next two plus years will be planning their “plausible deniability for every Obama action intended to weaken the United States. Their line of BS will be: “this is what I would have done.” Actually, it’ll be more than a Hillary line. It’ll be a bald faced lie.
What I’m trying to avoid is going into the next Presidential election campaign and thinking in hindsight what idiots we were to lack the foresight to put Hillary on the record regarding her position on every contemptible move our President has made. If my insight is correct that Obama’s not running again, then we have to think through the implications. Hillary must be put on the record. Because if we can get her to admit she agrees with Obama’s America-killing actions, her goose cooked.
Agreed. The media can now see that they can’t protect Obama from public opinion, so they are starting up the Hillary bandwagon. If this isn’t nipped in the bud it will become an albatross for our country.
These are dangerous times. We have a decaying and financially floundering MSM doing everything it can to keep the “this company is too big to fail” crowd in power. If GMC can do it, why not NBC and the New York Times?
While Hillary might be more electable than Obama in 2012, that won’t be saying much. The Democratic brand is so damaged that it will be very hard for any Democrat to win.
I see two advantages to Hillary beating Obama in the 2012 primaries.
1) Few Democratic blacks will show up to the polls in 2012. This is 10 to 15 percent of the Democratic vote every year. Without these votes, no Democrat has a chance to win the White House. Additionally, when these voters stay home, hundreds of Democrats down ticket, from congress to every statehouse will lose races that they otherwise might have won.
2) By letting a fellow Democrat take down Obama, the Democrats will have to bear the burden of the black voter’s animosity, not the Republicans. It will take the Democrats years to win back the kind of black support that they have enjoyed for decades.
Roger,
His current policy/ decisions aside – I am still dumbfounded at times Obama was part of the equation for the Presidential race, let alone winning it! In this day and age there is/was a PLETHORA of information on this know-nothing years prior to 2008.
I’m in the process of obtaining my TSC whereas I’ve had a Secret Clearance for nearly 15 years. The information needed is gregarious, tedious and in many ways quite personal. Nonetheless disclosure of my professional, personal life is demanded.
-How a person, in charge of the Free World can disclose but a 140-worded note in essence from a physician to ‘meet’ the medical documentation is insulting.
-The non-disclosure of a myriad of Obama’s dossier is disgusting. Many spoke of his not being ‘vetted’ during the primaries and election. How could he be vetted? The man provided NEXT TO NOTHING!
-The DoD has my long form birth certificate, Social Security number, Passport, My college transcripts, thesis, my military quarterly performance reviews, my DD-214, SF-50, notes from former military acquaintances, NCO and CO’s observations, recommendations (much of which is in my performance reviews), on and on. all this for security clearance for a nobody like myself.
Obama hoodwinked the tweeners, many senior citizens and the Oprah, reality t.v., Judge Mathis moronic masses.
Again, his voting record, political view and stances was available LONG BEFORE he was the Democratic Party nominee. I was in the Aleutian Islands and had read 3 books regarding Obama in the Fall of ’08. The twerp’s life was there for all to research, evaluate for sometime. Unfortunately, like Obama, people are lazy and too forgiving for others shortcomings. To have this stance in our country’s leaders is despicable..
The only people who should consider the man a liar is the minions of Jim Jones-like/Kool-Aid drinkers who believed his nonsense.
I can say the same for GW Bush, Clinton, Carter, Nixon, Woodrow Wilson, Andrew Johnson (Lincoln’s VP Andrew Jackson) etc., The only difference being is the latter part of the 20th Century information is available in infinite-like mediums. The others required more evaluation, tedious research.
I do not usually comment on respective hard right personal views. However, I must admit that I do agree with your opinion in that OBAMA was elected at all. Actually, I was shocked as well, but then, I am of the “get off my lawn” side of life so I still remember when nobody actually believed that person of color would ever be elected president.
Race aside though and OBAMA still looked a bit wet behind the ears when you scracth deeper on qualifications. My opinion? I really believes it was a “a perfect storm” for him in so many ways. There is also an arguement that Kennedy and Carter ended up in office under the same scenario’s. however, OBAMA is unique in many ways so on my historian side, I looked at ’08 with intrigue. On a side note, I think OBAMA should never forget to send Bush a Christmas card, … every year for the rest of his life… good comment Paul, thanks.
Many of you commenters seem to be under the impression that Obama lies far more than is normal for a person like him (i.e. a politician). He has lied here and there, yes, but what President hasn’t? Most of your reactions seem rather extreme: I don’t understand the logic behind statements like
I still have trouble believing that people could not see through Obama after seeing him speak a few times. That he is a liar, a con man, a fraud, is so apparent as to be immediately understood. You watch his eyes, his facial expressions, the body language, the cadence of his speech. All reveal a con man, exclusive of the lack of content in his rhetoric. Then, as you examine his background, the details, it confirms that impression. The man is a living misrepresentation, everything is false, phoney, not what it appears to be on the surface.
What has Obama said that’s any worse than Bush, or Clinton, or Reagan? He did misconstrue events to further his campaign, but to call him “a liar, a con man, a fraud” seems excessive.
Regarding his campaign promises, he is doing a pretty good job of keeping them.
I am not concerned about Obama, his beliefs, his lies or his total incompetence for the office. I am worried about living in a nation populated with so many people that bought into his bull shit and voted for him.
Well-put, Ralph.
Someone I think possibly P.T. Barnum said ‘no one ever lost money underestimating the STUPIDITY of the general populace’ and in the case of the American voter this has proved to be absolutely spot on the money. As others have said when Obama is done and gone you are still left with the gullible, naive, hysterical STUPID bunch of people who actually swallowed all his BS and voted for him. The Blacks of course can be discounted they voted simply and BLATANTLY as RACISTS.
Is it November yet?
Poor Citizen,
Thank you for the response, kind words.
Yep, this administration and many others prior to the latter 1/2 of the 2oth Century have me shaking my head. Much like Darth Vader’s doubletake when the disabled Millenium Falcon’s hyper drive was disabled, Skywalker and company in Vader’s grasp and POOF! R2-D2 fixed the sabotaged ship and the crew once again cheated death!
Hey, watched Star Wars IV-VI with my nephews recently!
Comrade Obama velcomes you to the United Socialists States of Amerika!….its all about distribution of wealth…take from the productive and give to the non-productive as redistribution and retribution for being successful.